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ITS BASIC PRINCIPLES

AND PRACTICAL

FORMULAS

By A. A. Lindsay, M. D.

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' ' I carve the marble of pure thought,

until the thought takes form;

Until it gleams before my soul,

and makes the world grow warm;

Until there comes the glorious voice,

with words that seem divine,

And the music reaches all men's hearts,

and draws them into mine. "

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Contents

The Basic Principles ...

Psycho (Suggestive) Therapeutics

How to Treat Disease and Habits

Hypnosis-How to Produce and Use

Suggestion in Moral Reform

Intelligence of the Cells

Cell Communication and Co-operation-

Cell Insanity ...

Telepathy -----

How to Become a Psychic

Some Psychic Phenomena

Chemistry of Body Modified by Emotions

Absent Treatment -

Truth About Evil Thought Transference

Scientific Inspiration -

The Chemistry and Psychology of Love

The Mother and Her Child

Faith, Hope and Trust, Psychologically

Speaking -

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•^»" O say that the cure of disease is by mind power, or to say The Basic

£^ that curing takes place because of mind over matter, or Principles

^^"^ to say that mind cures disease, when an idea is introduced

into it, because it is controllable by suggestion, is not sufficiently

definite in this day when exact knowledge is the standard.

This book is for the purpose of defining what mind depart

ment communicates between man and the objective world; what

department communicates between man and the sub-conscious

world ; what department forms the ideas and another that makes

these become reality ; how the body is transformed into conformity

to the idea ; how permanent character is established, item by item,

in accord with the idealizing. Then it is a book that deals with the

powers, attributes, qualities and classifications of all the mental

functions of the individual and the methods of their working,

and formulas for directing their operation for definite results.

It has been in the human conception to regard the sun because

it manifested its wondrous power in heat and light beneficently,

as the source and sum total of power, and so was chosen as an

object of worship. The earth and other members of the planetary

system, and sideral regions have likewise been looked to by men

as Deific and all; lightning with its consequent thunder, indeed

all the elements, birds and animals and reptiles and sometimes a

man, and again members of the human body, all, all have been

and many of these are yet regarded as the ultimate and the all.

With this view of human history we must concede the

tendency of the human mind is to limit his vision and declare

that this, his little horizon, is all there really is, or can be, and

it therefore is almost excusable that the man who has seen some

thing of intellect, saw it capable of great development, saw it

might solve problems of science, mathematics, and encompass the

earth through his constructions should conclude the intellectual

department of man was all the mind he could possess. The same

law that limited the expansion of comprehension, when all power

was by supposition concentrated in the sun, prevents the percep

tion of any human power being beyond that of mind, as it obtains

knowledge through the sense department and expresses it, just

like if one held a red glass before a green object, and it looks

black, or looking at a blue object with a yellow glass it seems

black, or to the man who has always looked at this objective

world through blue glasses, declares all its properties are blue,

so to the individual who has never perceived anything except

through the senses, he determines the sense o'r its objective mind

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with its will and its reasoning, constitutes all the man is or may be

mentally. However, an acquaintance with the soul, with its per

ceptive and expressive power, has caused us to analyze the direc

tion of his mental activities. I will discuss herein later the various

sources of discovering that there is in man something beyond

sense perception and reflex action, but only declare the truth

of the discovery now.

The scientific study of another department of mind, which is

spoken of as the subjective or psychic division has been mainly

through hypnotism, which in the hands of the scientific student

has disclosed mental powers, so different as well as so superior

to the phenomena of the ordinary consciousness that the next

serious error to thinking the intellectual of the objective was all

the mind, was to conclude that there are two minds. The authors

who have helped us greatly were under this impression of duality,

and almost showed a line of demarkation between the "sub

jective and objective minds."

Further researches convince us that there is but one mind

or soul in the individual, and this we may correctly define as

manifesting, so far as our usual states are concerned, conscious

and sub-conscious. The sub-conscious may be well described

under the title of the psychic department, and so the terms "sub

conscious or psychic powers," when speaking of the subjective

mental functions are correct.

But to declare a man is two men is no more correct than to

say that because there are phenomena of light that illumines

our buildings and the power that hurls our cars through the street,

are two forces instead of the one force of electricity with different

forms of expression. The quality of speed and power to draw

should just as much require that a horse be two horses as that

one mind must be two, else it could not do such widely different

things. The clearest statement of the truth as it is, is this : Man

is one entire soul (I use the word in no religious or theological

sense, but as being the only word that possesses the meaning,

comprehending life, mind and immortality in one word) having \a body with many members, for the purpose of a multiplicity of

acts and varied, and the two very distinct forms of mental

expression. It is just as though soul had appointed a depart

ment of itself to preside over the senses, give and receive impres

sions, as to the physical world, collate the data of that world,

reason upon it, form conclusions, which it may transmit to the .soul and there record in perfect memory, where it shall remain,

unless an equally forceful suggestion either neutralizes or sup

plants it, and while it is there, it is a part of the character, or the

individual. The normal situation would be where the objective

consciousness attended strictly to its appointment, as above, for

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it trespasses upon the psychic department when it tries to order

the functions of the body, for the sub-conscious department, situ

ated to know the state of every atom of the body, can never

delegate to the volitional department the office of presiding over

the composition and function of the body, for there are no means

to know through the senses, as to the states, of the cells, either in

their chemistry, or their mentality.

To show that the objective department of mind communicates

with the objective world, and that the psychic or sub-conscious

department is the seat of the emotions, the permanent reservoir

of inherent knowledge, is possessed of the intuitive faculties, the

department of inspiration, invention, of art, is possessed of a

perfect memory, and the attribute of fore-knowledge, the latter

holding the experiences, yet to come to the individual, and is

possessed of even creative power with regard to the body, and •does preside over tissue changes through cell reproduction, as

well as controlling all of the functions of the body, is the chief

lesson in psychology, and in practical soul culture is of first

importance. The infringements upon the office of the sub-con

scious department through usurping of authority by the objective

is the source of silencing the psychic department, out of which

there should be constantly flowing its superior powers. People

try, they try to play musical instruments ; they try to be orators ;

they try to invent by calculations, and by reasoning, or intellectual

power, and in business they try by objective force to acomplish

their excellence, and ingloriously fail, though within them, but

in the sub-conscious, there is every qualification to do and to

be all they would aspire to ; the sick try to cure themselves upon

the same principle. So the musician, who must go through objec

tive training under the usual formulas will finally discover that to

sing, he must let the voice give expression, make it never; that

to be an artist in painting there is no art where they objectively

try, but it has to flow, so to speak. In every form of art, that

which distinguishes the individual in his aim is that which declares

him inspired instead of mechanical. No further emphasis or decla

ration is necessary to show to anyone convincingly that all superior

powers must be acquired through bringing the subjective into ex

pression. Since the excellence of art, music, literature, etc., excel

lence in business, social affairs, teaching as well as invention, and all

other traits, properties, expressions, powers previously- mentioned

as belonging to the sub-conscious mental department, really do

exist even to a degree to make those who avail themselves of

them, to become perfect in health, appear as veritable geniuses and

possessed of well rounded character, we will now take up the

matter of formulas to bring out of the soul the expressions of

its powers, just as we would have them to appear in our lives.

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^m^\ S stated in the previous chapter, all power over the body Psycho

/\ is in the sub-conscious department. That being literally (Suggestive)r true, that the sub-conscious mind preferably called the Therapeuticssoul, presides over the body as to its chemistry, its function, and

structure, including cell vibration, cell functioning, cell reproduc- «»—tion; modifying and controlling the forces as temperature and

electricity, absolutely determining the nutritive and eliminating

processes, and as you may readily see, atom by atom, cell by cell,

creates the body.

Every experience, clinical, hypnotic, or in the observation of

normal or abnormal states proves that that power spoken of as _^the sub-consciousness or the soul, operates under suggestion. The

first classification of phenomena that we will deal with under the

proposition that the soul, in its subjective department, creates

and controls the body, as indicated, and is itself controlled by sug

gestion, will be psycho (suggestive) therapy.

In the ordinary use of the word suggestion, we would mean

the introduction of an idea into the objective department of

the mind, but when we speak of the Science of Suggestion, we

mean the introduction of an idea into the soul. When a patient

comes into my office and I tell him in his active state that his

rheumatic symptoms are beginning to disappear, and will soon be

entirely overcome; that the cause of the pain is being removed;

that the uric acid will cease to be in excess; that the pain and

swelling are going ; I have introduced into his mind the idea con

sistent with these words, and he looks at me incredulously and

informs me he does not believe a word I have said.

None of the conditions occur as I said they would. Another

person comes to me in the same condition. I say the same things

to him and he believes what I say, and says so, and the pain and

other symptoms begin disappearing, his entire cure ensuing.

The practice of that kind of suggestion cannot be called scien

tific, for there are no fixed, but haphazard results. If we are

applying fixed laws, we will always get the same results in using

the formula; and this experience has been that of many physi

cians who thought the mind power had efficiency, but having

given the suggestion to the objective, as in the first instance above,

and sometimes getting no corresponding results, they have pro

nounced against suggestion as never being efficient.

In the first instance of the rheumatic sufferer, I introduced

the idea into the mind, and he, being incredulous at once, offset

the idea by his auto-suggestion. The thought never went beyond

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his objective mind, and the decision that he registered in his soul

was that he would not be benefited, and of course he got no relief.

In the second instance, under the same physical conditions, the

idea was introduced into the same objective mentality, but he

believed with that mind, and weighing evidence that applied to

him, he came to the conclusion that he was being cured of his

disorder, and all the symptoms disappeared, and along with them

the cause.

With his mind he registers that decision in his soul. In other

words, the belief of his mind when it reaches his soul is faith.

It is faith, expectancy, in the soul that cures all diseases, regard

less of the method adopted to reach that faith. No disease was

ever cured until the expectancy of the soul was established.

Scientific suggestion means then the introduction of an idea

into the sub-conscious department of mind, the psychic depart

ment, usually spoken of as the soul. This idea may be introduced

in the active state of the patient by his accepting with his mind

and passing down to the soul the idea, thus giving his objective

co-operation with the positions suggested. It is so seldom that

the patient with his mind can believe implicitly, not carrying even

a shadow of doubt to the soul, that dependence upon suggestion

given in the active state is not warranted. There is a law of

suggestion, because the laws of the soul are as fixed as the laws

of chemistry, magnetism, electricity, or gravity. The idea that is

fixed in perfect faith upon the soul will compel answer involving

• even a changing of the organism chemically, structurally, or func

tionally. It believes all the mind tells it; it builds upon wrong

expectancy, as effectually and as surely as upon the correct.

Under a wrong suggestion the soul will change the body to the

abnormal; under a right suggestion it will perfect all of the

physical organization.

We have now briefly outlined the power that is in the patient

that heals his own body, and we will now illustrate how to get

access to that power to produce the phenomenon of cure. Thera

peutic suggestion contains as much in curing habits as it does to

blot out disease or as being a power in character building.

A young Englishman of 26 years presented himself at my office

for treatment for stammering. His distorted countenance when

endeavoring to speak would call forth the sympathy of almost

any observer. His disorder had existed since the age of six or

seven, and had its origin in his mimicry of a man whom he saw

occasionally. He and his sister indulged in this sport-making,

having no evil purpose, but kept up the practice voluntarily for

a time, when he found that if he desired to speak normally there

was involuntary stammering. This grew upon him until it was

with the greatest difficulty that he could make himself understood

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at all. His education was fair in general lines. He had fitted

himself for book-keeping, and, being an adept accountant, could

have commanded the best position and salary, but for his defective

speech. He had been through several institutions in this country,

that had various methods for treating such a case, but he said

the exercises seemed to have made him more self-conscious

and he had met with no improvement. I applied the science of

suggestion in his instance. He seated himself comfortably in

my treating chair. I instructed him to thoroughly relax his body

and let his mind wander as it pleased. The condition of his body

and the state of his mind favored the best passivity, the latter

being essential before suggestions can best be addressed to the

sub-consciousness. I suggested "From this moment you will have

better control over your organs of speech ; there shall be less hesi

tancy at the beginning of your sentences; you will not become

violently entangled in the midst of the sentence, and no letter or

word shall be a serious obstacle to your pronunciation ; your nerv

ousness in all forms shall be overcome, and you will be better in

all respects from this moment; the distorted countenance shall

disappear, as no involuntary action of the facial muscles shall take

place ; you will become less conscious of self and you shall feel no

discouragement at any remaining evidence of your disorder, for

you will expect a perfect cure, and will know that any delay is

because of the long established habit." I probably repeated this

form of suggestion five or six times audibly during the half hour.

I mentally suggested the same thing during the silent moments.

These treatments were given three* times a week during two

months, modifying the form of the suggestions in that as the

case advanced I ceased to refer to the old conditions and giving

negative suggestions and gave the positive suggestions of har

monious speech and perfect control over all the organs of speech

and muscles of the face.

Of course this was a disorder purely of functions. The feat

ure of habit was as profound as could be in any instance. How

ever, neither habit, heredity, or any other form of mental impress

can be impressed more deeply than in the soul itself. That being

the case since in the passive state, we get free access to the soul,

that has been wrongly impressed, and remove the error, plant

and cultivate new habit, then this comes out as natural expression.

The soul is ever striving for moral and physical harmony, and

because of that it took much less time to plant order in the soul

than it did the disorder. The gentleman had to break law to

obtain defective speech. He had only to bring himself in harmony

with law to correct his speech.

I will not recite a series of such cases, for this is a type

of many such habits as stammering, facial or eye jerkings, or of

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involuntary muscular movements that may have the feature of

habit in any parts of the body. This case and many others of the

kind show to be cured in a month and sometimes less, but from a

long experience, I know that to eradicate one habit and establish

another should engage repeated attention covering a reasonable

period of time. This has been my rule for the last five or six

years, during which I have observed no relapses, whereas four

teen years ago I many times saw that dismissing a patient

immediately upon their appearing well would sometimes mean

relapses.

The manner of giving a suggestion to this patient is just like

that I have used of late years in all cases, namely : quiet, confident,

natural, soothing, and sympathetic. There is no place in sugges

tive treatments for violent manner of expression, nor loud tones.

This young man took shipment for England to be with his friends

that he had previously left because his disorder was humiliating

to them as to himself. Of course this case was one in which the

organs were all present and all right, but sometimes even where

there is surgery necessary to make it possible for an individual

to speak, still the operation might not produce a cure without

suggestions being given that would overcome the habit of stam

mering. Outside of this particular form of disorder, many

surgical operations fall short of their purpose, in the absence of

suggestion, for suggestion and surgery must co-operate to estab

lish right organic conditions and functional control.

Insomnia is probably the most easily responsive disorder of

all the conditions where the nervous system chiefly is involved.

Mrs. R., a patient of about thirty-five, belonged to the society set

in San Francisco. She could not sleep except by the use of

drugs, the most of which she had exhausted, and from none of

them did she get any refreshing sleep. She was placed in a chair

and made comfortable, and the usual processes adopted for pro

ducing the passivity, and being quite responsive, I began her

suggestive treatment at once. The words I used were like these :

"Immediately upon retiring to-night you will find a drowsiness

overcome you quickly, followed by an unconscious sleep. During

the night, whenever you shall awaken, it will be only for a

moment, and you will immediately fall back into a refreshing

sleep. In the course of the night you will get at least six hours'

sleep, and in the morning you will be conscious of having had a

most refreshing slumber. You will be so glad that you have had

that sleep without any drugs to compel it. You will not desire any

medicine again to produce sleep. You will not feel the loss of

it in giving it up entirely."

This case and all of the kind have been treated usually three

times a week for two weeks or a month according to how long

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a period of time the insomnia had previously existed. The idea

of progress in the case is planted with the beginning of the treat

ment, and is always observed until we can truthfully say that the

disease and its symptoms have all disappeared and will never

return. The beginning practitioner should carefully observe the

lessons herein taught pertaining to aspiration. That is, the patient

does not receive the suggestion at the first treatment that he is

going to be perfectly well when he is aroused from his passivity, '

or that immediately upon being treated at any sitting there has

been such action that none of the symptoms of the disorder will

ever appear again, that you will always suggest improvement and

yet observe conservation, that you may avoid deceiving the soul

of the patient which you were addressing. Such an impress is

made by the chronic condition that it is very rarely indeed if ever

possible for one to absolutely remove all symptoms at a few

sittings. Usually there is a necessity to overcome disease, but

also to establish a health habit. You should hold your patient

under treatment until that has been accomplished. In cases of

insomnia, especially with people represented by this lady, you

will nearly always have to cure a drug habit, as well as to restore

the equilibrium of the nervous system, so that the patient can

sleep naturally.

Insomnia is usually indicative of other departures from the

normal which need attention, for though it be the most prominent

symptom and may be the chief cause of the patients application

for treatment, insomnia itself may be incidental to the habits or

diseases of the patient. Psycho therapeutics is a method of treat

ment by which we can eradicate all of the cause, whatever it may

be and however numerous and peculiar the disease's symptoms

may be. The patient's general condition should be taken into con

sideration, and whatever is abnormal should be suggested away,

and we usually find that with the disappearance of the symptoms

the cause has also gone. To compel sleep while there were condi

tions in the body being neglected, would be no better practice

by suggestionists than is that followed by the medical man that

deadens his patients with an opiate. We have no occasion to

benumb the sensibilities, for the soul is a power that could do that

and it will more readily correct conditions than it would produce

abnormal states. If the midnight luncheon, or other practices

of the patient are the cause of sleeplessness, always instruct the

patient that wilfully breaking the law always must pay its penalty.

Instruct for correct habits and hygiene, along with even as force

ful a method of correcting disease as suggestive therapeutics.

In the instance cited full observation was given to all of these

phases and her cure was perfect.

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■ m\i HAVING practiced drug-giving too long, have seen the

*l remedial agency of drugs too often to think for a moment

that that form of medication should be abandoned entirely

and to appoint psychic methods as the solitary means of treatment

in all cases. Suggestion, I mean scientific suggestion, which is

suggestion to be given in the passive state, will go hand in hand

with any other methods.

In the hands of the specialist demonstrations have been in

the main confined to those cases pronounced incurable, having

been the rounds of all other forms of treatment. Such a large

percentage of cures when dealing solely with that class is a

marvelous fact.

Then, since we know any individual, even an infant, is a fit

person to be treated by suggestion, it may be well at this time

to define who is adapted to administer the treatment. There

are some reasons why a physician or known healer would be the

most efficient suggestor. The purpose in every instance is to

obtain an expectancy in the soul of the patient, and a man who

is already great in reputation has earned the confidence of the

patient, which will be the basis of grounding faith.

The critical reader is supposed to think that a contradiction

is made in the statement that an infant is also a promising candi

date for treatment by suggestion when expectancy is the basis

of cure.

When we reach that department of these writings dealing

with transference of thought from soul to soul, you will appre

ciate what expectancy can be awakened in the soul before words

could be consciously understood.

As I have stated, the specialist who has reputation would be

the most efficient man as a general thing in giving treatments by

this method or any other method as for that. However, the first

essential of an operator, the chief among them all, is common

sense.' The next is sympathy. And if common sense does not

include tact, we will make that the third essential. Firmness

or positiveness, or one who believes in himself and in his teach

ings ; in other words, sincerity ; calmness and ease and confidence

of manner, and a voice that contains the magnetism and sympathy

of love, for he has to be in this attitude towards his patient like

a mother towards her child, which she comforts and soothes to

sleep.

What might be generally an ideal operator would not by

everyone be considered the ideal, and so every patient can have

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Diseases and

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his notion as to the qualities that he wants to see embodied in

his suggestor.

If love and sympathy and common sense and tact are found

in an individual, he can meet with practically universal success.

Those qualities will win the way to the soul, and will be able to

supply the needs of that soul.

We will consider some of the diseases, and the method of

giving suggestions in the passive state. I will recite two cases

of eczema that have been successfully treated at my hands, and

which are typical of their own class.

Case one was a lady of between forty-five and fifty, presenting

the symptoms of loss of appetite, indigestion, frequent headaches,

insomnia, and general nervousness. She said she had had a

breaking out of the skin on her chest and shoulders, and that the

itching and burning were setting her crazy.

Her occupation was that of a teacher. All the symptoms

except that of the inflammatory condition of the skin, had existed

for some time. Her nervous system had received a shock eight

years before this, and she had been under medical treatment

almost all of that time, for some disorder or other.

She considered that her worst difficulty, when she came to me

was that of indigestion, practically all of her dietary had been

withdrawn. She had been the rounds of the physicians who,

one after another, withdrew the items of food, until she suspected

that all the substances would disagree with her, and she realized

her expectations. She was trying to subsist upon a little break

fast food when she came to me.

She was so nervous that when she sat down and relaxed her

body as best she could, and I requested her to close her eyes, it

was impossible for her to keep them closed. Placing my fingers

over her eyes, as I did not care to tire her eyes by gaze, and

holding them closed, I began the suggestions. "You will become

so calm, and all is so peaceful and quiet here that you will get

very comfortable, and perfect composure will come to you

instantly. This treatment is so soothing and you will receive

an electrical balance. You feel better already, so calm mentally—

indifferent to your surroundings and feelings. You feel you can

receive the suggestions with your whole being; you will realize

all the changes I shall predict for you; you will get many more

hours of sleep to-night, and the moments you are awake you will

be free from worry, anxiety or fear, and have only most delight

ful thoughts during that time. Immediately after this treatment

you will feel hungry ; your appetite for food will return at once,

and when you eat you will take no thought that your food will

disagree with you. I shall not detail your items of diet—I want

you to eat a general mixed dietary and have no fear or other

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thought about food after you do eat and you will find every meal

will be taken care of properly, and you will want to partake of

three good meals daily and regularly. Your stomach will perform

its offices in secreting the right fluids to treat the food—its muscu

lar and nervous activities shall be normal. The liver will perform

its appointments naturally, and the intestinal functions be effi

ciently carried on. The assimilation of your food will be per

fect; every cell shall take from your food the elements needed.

The irritation of the skin, showing lack of elimination, there will

be opening of the pores, perspiration shall be caused, and every

other eliminating department shall be stimulated. Improvement

in every direction shall continue from this moment until you are

perfectly well in all respects. Soon you will be sleeping all night

long, like a little child; your eating shall be ample and regular,

and you will be anxious to eat at every meal time. Your nervous

system has during this time found its equilibrium, and this quiet

ness and calmness and control over your system shall become the

usual, and with all of this improvement in the nerves, in the

assimilation of food and elimination of waste substances made

perfect, the itching and painful and inflamed condition of the skin

will quickly disappear and will never annoy you as it has done.

You will be better, and continue to improve until quite well. At

our next treatment you will become more deeply passive, and

you will gladly close your eyes and become passive the moment

you sit down in this chair. Continue bright and cheerful and

hopeful, free from all worry from this moment. All right now."

The last words "all right" are better than to say "wake up,"

because to the latter would always be the reply, "I was not asleep."

This passivity that is possible to all, even to an extremely nervous

patient like that described, is ample for therapeutic purposes, save

in the exceptions mentioned elsewhere.

One can hardly imagine the improvement that took place in

this patient between the first and the second treatment, which was

given omitting one day. "I have slept like a child and eaten with

delight ; I do not have to use all my energies in scratching either,

for the breaking out is disappearing fast."

The second treatment was much like the first, being along the

same lines to make permanent the improving, and during the

treatment course, which was for a month, and given three times

a week, suggestions were made with reference to the disappear

ance of disease symptoms and removing all memories of those

disorders, and the establishment of the idea of perfect health in

their stead.

The cure of this patient was perfect along all lines, and she

gained rapidly in flesh, for of course the improved nutrition and

elimination made most marked impressions upon her appearance

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and mental state. In some degree her general character and

habit were impressed, but worry was a large feature in her nature,

and she had very great burdens upon her, so in about three

months, she, after the first course of treatment returned to me

presenting many indications that she was threatened with recur

rence of former troubles. She demonstrated that the same causes

will bring us the repitition of effects, and that even treatment and

cure by the psychic powers does not make one invulnerable to the

effects attending upon broken laws. Her teeth had been needing

attention for several weeks, which occasioned suffering and nerv

ousness, and with defective mastication, she was suffering with

indigestion. I sent her to a dentist who had studied at my institu

tion, who waited upon her without trying her nerves unduly,

and she needed only three or four treatments when she was

discharged well again. It will be observed by every practitioner

that when a patient has been so quickly and profoundly affected,

a time or two by suggestion seeming to get rid of the penalties

attached to breaking laws, the tendency is to tempt nature too far.

Under medical treatment, even though they might get well, they

dread the disagreeable medicine and the experiences of illness,

which has a very wholesome effect upon their care of themselves ;

the comfort and care and pleasure under treatment by the sugges

tion method tends to make one indifferent to health observation.

The principle upon which this lady was treated is the universal

one under the psychic practice. The student will observe that

treatment was not limited to the cause that brought the patient

to the office ; that while the irritation of the skin, due to its inflam

matory condition was the primary cause of the patient applying,

yet it received less attention when we began treatment than other

conditions did.

This should cause the pupil to study this case very carefully

to note particularly that there is nearly always something wrong

with the assimilation or elimination, and usually both; that the

nervous system is always involved in some way or other in every

disorder; that circulation is often defective; that the habits of the

patient's life should be looked after, and a careful observance of

hygienic practices and exercises must be considered; that the

patient who has had wrong expectations must be impressed as to

how disastrous they are, as, for instance, in the above case the

lady never swallowed a mouthful of food without supposing that

it would in some way give her distress afterwards.

The habit of discussing at the table those items of food that

disagree with the speaker or someone else is a most deplorable

thing to do ; and granting that something does disagree with him,

he has no right to impress others with his eccentricity and upset

their dietetics.

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The patient described above had studied the principles involved

in her treatment, and has successfully applied them in training

her children from an educational standpoint, and is causing them

to grow up in fulfillment of her ideal, physically and mentally and

spiritually. Our greatest hope for the science of the soul is

grounded in the rising generation.

Case number two was a married lady past middle life, in good

circumstances, with no occasion to either work or worry. Her

difficulty was chronic eczema of the hands, or what we used to

term salt rheum. The objective symptoms were the cracked skin

so deep that bleeding would often take place. These places would

open up at joints on the inside palms of the hands and the

fingers, and with the beginning to scale off, there would be much

itching. In fact, the itching also preceded the opening of the

skin. Of course these places were quite painful, and they were

so numerous upon each hand that it was difficult for her to put

on her gloves or dress herself, and life was really made most

miserable to her.

At all times the various stages of these outbreaks were appar

ent, the healing of some, and the coming on of the new. She had

been treated systemically, also locally by the usual methods,

although the chief dependence had been placed upon the local—

the external application of the washes and salves in general use.

She assured me that there never had been temporary benefits from

any treatment.

A casual examination of the patient would have conveyed the

impression that her general health was perfect. She said that

she knew of nothing to complain of except the conditions of her

hands. There was hypertrophy (thickening) of the skin of the

hands, which I failed to mention above. I feel that it is good

practice to consider such an outbreak as being significant of

constitutional disorder. While there were no very marked dis

orders of the nervous system, yet there were some.

There was overeating and lack of assimilation and a general

clogged-up system. She would perspire excessively in some

portions of the body, while an unpleasant dryness was present

in others.

She had had bronchitis for several winters. This had never

been suggested as having any relationship to the condition of the

hands, but who knows just what that relationship may have been ?

In looking over the patient's history and condition those were the

items we noted. In view of the fact that the Christian Scientist

sometimes succeeds in such an indirect suggestion as the denial of

all disease, affirming that disease is only an idea, a shadow, cures

following, one might be encouraged to treat a case like this lady's

by simply giving the suggestions that the hands would get well.

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The intelligent way to give the treatment, and that which I find

is based upon principle, and always successful, is to remove, if

possible, the primary cause by giving specific suggestions concern

ing all the changes that can possibly be related to the case.

It is unnecessary to describe the method of preparing the

patient for treatment over and over again, for nine-tenths of

them are treated under the same process of sitting comfortably

in a chair, where relaxation and passivity can be realized, and I

adopt the same method that the mother would adopt who desired

her child to go to sleep. That is, I say quieting words in a style

that is corresponding, for the process by which I help the patient

to passivity is identical with that of assisting one to go into the

natural sleep.

Passivity and relaxation and the indifference of the mind result

in the depletion of the brain of its excess of blood, which is con

ducive to the right mental and physical state for receiving the

introduction of the idea into the soul, which causes the soul to act

promptly and effectually in producing the conditions suggested.

There was no variation from the usual method in treating this

chronic case of eczema. Her calmness, in fact, her temperament,

was just the opposite of the nervous patient in case number one.

Her passivity was somewhat interfered with by her frequent

coughing. However, at the first treatment I aimed at the unload

ing of the system that was so overburdened with poisonous sub

stances, suggesting directly at all the sources of elimination,

stimulating them all in the fullest possible extent, and probably

repeating more frequently than any other suggestion that the skin

would become active as an excretory organ.

The nervous system was referred to, that it would be natural.

The attention of the soul was brought directly toward building

up the skin cells with the proper chemistry, suggesting that there

would become the normal moist and oily condition of the skin;

that it would throw off the excessive growth of the skin, as

indicated by the growth of thickening, and that the skin would

become normal.

Those who expect every patient, regardless of what is the

matter with him, to be cured instantly, will be disappointed in the

instances where he has to make over tissue, for nature, stimulated

by suggestion even, cannot make over an organ in a few days.

I told this lady at the beginning that I wanted her to provide

for two months' treatment, during which time I would get her so

well under way that she would proceed to perfection of health

alone after that. At these early treatments I emphatically sug

gested the disappearance of all the bronchial symptoms and asth

matic paroxysms. It was two weeks before I saw any impress

made upon the hands. After that time, for two weeks there was

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very marked improvement in them. But about this time she took

a severe cold and brought back an exaggerated bronchial trouble,

with incessant cough, day and night, losing her rest, and having

nauseau from the spasms in coughing.

If I had been uncertain in the beginning as to whether

there were any relationship between the difficulty in the hands

and her bronchial affections, I would no longer have been, for

within a few days after the cold fastened itself upon her, her

hands were to all appearances worse than when I commenced

treatment.

I was not discouraged by this relapse, but I am satisfied that

I shortened the period of her acute cold and bronchial difficulty

by the suggestions given, that relieved all the symptoms of influ

enza, and she was soon back to the condition obtained before

contracting her cold.

At the end of two months, even with the relapse, there was

very great improvement in the hands, and the cough had entirely

disappeared. Only at the rarest did it occur.

I advised two weeks of cessation of treatment, and that she

would then return for another month. Her treatments were given

during the period of the three months, an average of two a week.

The hands were entirely well at the end of the three months'

treatment, and the cure was established.

Among the hygienic measures advised in her case was the

instruction to avoid irritating soaps as well as to observe cleanli

ness, so that I am sure that the cure was entirely due to the action

of her soul under suggestion and the proper hygiene. She

received no medicine during the period.

It is peculiar that the question is always asked when one has

been treated by a method that has not been in the medical books

for the last hundred years, as to whether or not the cure is per

manent.

I have said that this case was cured. That seems to me final,

and the question of permanency can hardly attach itself in a case

that is cured, for, if the patient should bring about the conditions

like those that were present and caused the disease in years gone

by, and would get the same effect again from a like cause, it

appeals to me as being a new case, for, in the absence of a new

cause no disease would appear.

Case No. 12. A complex case was that of a young lady,

twenty-two years of age, who had been seamstress in a tailor shop

for a number of years, and was influenced to appeal to me for

treatment.

Her chronic trouble was Saint Vitus Dance. This was of six

years' standing, and always more or less present, although the

greater part of the time she kept at her work.

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When I was called in her spasms were manifest in the whole

body, including the face. She could not control her speech, or be

understood. She was suffering from inflammatory rheumatism

and hysteria. There was uterine congestion, although counsel and

myself could not determine how much the congestion had to do

with the nervous symptoms.

We could locate no spinal trouble, and in her condition at the

beginning of the treatment, relief of severe symptoms was of the

greatest import, and a complete diagnosis was never made.

She heard the physician who was with me in counsel say that

she was hysterical, and that he did not know how much she was

really suffering. She slapped him in the face when he attempted

to make an examination, and refused to have him present in her

treatment.

I was more fortunate in pleasing her, for I believe that hysteri

cal disorder is as much of a disease as anything else that we

have to deal with.

I was soon convinced that she was not simulating, because

simulation is an act under the control of the voluntary mind, in

which the patient, by the act of the will, imitates symptoms

of disease. That which we call hysteria would be under the invol

untary mind, and the symptoms are not controllable by the will

of the patient. For that reason, the merciless way in which such

cases are often treated, justifies the contempt that the patient

often feels for such physicians in their ignorance.

Inflammatory rheumatism affected all the limbs, and at the

joints, there was great pain upon pressure or movement. Her

temperature was from 101 to 103.

I did not feel justified in making the ordinary repairs to get

her through the acute disease, but began to assure her at once

that if she would listen to what I would tell her, that when she

got up from the rheumatism she would have no more muscular

twitchings; that she would sit more quietly and calmly, and no

jerking of the hands or feet, or the drawing of the muscles of

the face.

Of course she knew nothing about my methods or the prin

ciples upon which I promised such cure, but she seemed to believe

in me, and she said that she had been taking medicine for six

years, trying to get rid of her nervousness, and that she thought

that in some way she ought to be cured.

Owing to the acute conditions and the necessity for profound

and quick effect upon the system, that might assist in the elimina

tion of the causes of the uric acid, which we found present, she

was given purging medicine.

By the second day she was made easy, having had a good

night's rest and much sleep. There was no pain except when

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certain portions of the limbs were moved. Her temperature was

lower, and all the symptoms showed that they had been impressed

by the first treatment.

She became rapidly better of the rheumatic symptoms, and

within a week was all over the acute difficulty. In the meantime

I had been giving suggestions that the inflammatory uterine

trouble was being corrected and that at her next period there

would be such a perfect adjustment of the natural conditions that

she would have no suffering ; that the processes should be normal

in every respect, and that there would be absolutely no conges

tion after that time.

I repeatedly suggested that the nervous system was being

quieted, and that the muscular disorders would cease; that the

habit of constantly keeping the limbs in motion would be over

come, and that she would have perfect control over every move

ment.

She was treated daily during the period in which the rheu

matism was still in evidence. After that three times a week.

The entire course was only a month, and at the end of that time

there was not one symptom remaining of rheumatism, local

congestion, nor of chorea, and she had gained a great deal in flesh

and appearance.

Her after history was that she returned to her former occupa

tion, and there was no return of the nervous symptoms. She was

treated by audible suggestions in the lightly passive state, but she

went into the natural sleep during the treatment. That often

occurs and is a good omen.

This book is not written for the purpose of a case record, and

the idea in reciting these cases is not to convince anyone that these

special diseases are more remarkably responsive to suggestive

treatment than others, but because I desire to give illustrations of

the literal wording of suggestions in the treatment of the case.

The student will catch the idea of aiming at the removal of

the cause when it is known to him, and in any event, to suggest

the improvement of the case to begin at once, and to continue until

cured, and to suggest the disappearance of every unfavorable

symptom, giving each one a specific suggestion.

It is not necessary for the operator or the patient either to

absolutely know the correct diagnosis. It is a good idea to fall

into the sensible habit of treating diseases by conditions than

by names.

There is a portion of this book to be devoted to showing how

it is that the soul which we are addressing in giving therapeutic

suggestions knows the correct diagnosis, for it is inherent in

the soul to know the condition of every cell in which it resides,

and it is present in every cell of every tissue of the body, so the

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finite mind of either physician or patient might be mistaken, but

the soul actually knows and gives a correct diagnosis many more

times than it does indicate it, were it not for that, from our

objective reasoning, we placed upon the soul a certain suggestion

that certain disorders exist that in the beginning were not present.

Every physician has already found out how helpful it is to

allow a patient to tell him of his own case in his own words. If

he does not permit the patient to do this, but from the beginning

of the examination asks his questions that suggest symptoms, he

will never arrive at a correct diagnosis.

So far as the above patient is concerned, it would make little

difference except as to the pleasure of the pathologist, to know

certain that the chorea was due to the rheumatic diathesis. My

personal belief is that the uterine trouble was the primary cause

of the nervous manifestations. The disorders of the female are

particularly responsive to suggestion. The majority, both func

tional and organic, are caused by expectancy.

Within this same year I had occasion to treat a young man

for the morphine habit. He was at this time twenty years of age,

and at sixteen he was addicted to alcoholism and had taken the

Keeley cure. He came out of that treatment with no taste for

liquor, but with a desire to continue the hypodermic injections.

He found it pleasing to have morphine in those injections, and he

kept up increasing tolerance until when he was placed under my

care he was using forty grains in twenty-four hours.

This youth was suffering peculiarly when I first called, and

he nonplussed me very much for the time being, but after getting

him to rest for twelve hours, he was able upon awakening to

tell how he had been using cocaine for two weeks, and so had

taken a large injection of that drug along with his portion of

morphine. His physician had been giving him all the chloral he

would dare, and so I was unable to understand the situation, due

to the three drugs all in over-doses.

The wonderful power of the sub-conscious mind to create a

tolerance in the physical, for what would at first be a deadly

poison for two score of people is well worth attention for a

moment in passing. It is on the order of other auto-suggestions,

and is therefore a building process. The idea is first introduced

by taking the minimum dose, and repetition is the method of

re-impressing that idea, and presently it has grown to be an over

whelming suggestion as in this habit.

The young man said he wanted to get rid of the habit of

using these drugs, and if he had been addicted to the morphine

habit only, I would have felt much encouraged by his expressed

desire to quit, but it is very different when cocaine has been added

to the habit of morphineism. The demoralizing effect of the

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cocaine habit is greater than in any other drug addiction. His

promise would be worth nothing; he might seem to be attending

to treatment and obeying instructions, and declare he was well,

and yet be practicing the same as before treatment commenced.

Remember this ; never trust the word of a cocaine fiend.

I placed him under treatment, and developed him immediately

into excellent passivity. The suggestions given were as follows,

and are typical of the best form to use in these cases.

"You will cease to have the intense desire for the drugs, mor

phine or cocaine; the drugs shall become repulsive to you from

this moment, and should you try to use the hypodermic needle, the

pain in introducing it will be awful. The thought of this pain

will prevent you from using the needle, and the disgust for the

drugs will keep you from forcing your body to receive them

in any form.

"Every form of elimination shall be stimulated, thus removing

promptly and entirely the poisons now in the body; and with

this abstraction you will find a delightful, satisfied and peaceful

state coming over you. You will not suffer any nervousness,

mental depression or physical shock in ceasing to supply the body

with these horrible drugs." In those days I treated drug habits

by removal of the drug altogether and at once, but later I have

found it better to permit a small dose at long intervals, instead of

the perfect withdrawal from the first.

I repeated the above suggestions, as usual, a number of times

during the sitting of a half hour, always making a strong sugges

tion of improvement. I kept him under the watch of his family

for two weeks.

Through the sympathy of the father, who thought it impos

sible to make such an impression, from the first, as to have him

free from suffering from the denial, he gave his son small doses

of morphine by hypodermic injection, although the boy did not

declare any desire to have it.

The father had also taken the Keely Cure two times and

got this idea of reducing, not abstaining. Since that time where

the patient has been using enormous quantities, I permitted two

grains to be given in small portions during the twenty-four hours.

This would be lessened from day to day and stopped altogether

in a week. In three weeks this case was cured of all his drug

habit.

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V^aHILE I have stated in the previous chapters that the

yj[7 hypnotic state as a rule is unnecessary in our practice

^^ of suggestive therapeutics, yet, as there are some excep

tions to the statement, I think it well to note these exceptions and

this will make it incumbent upon us to have a thorough acquain

tance with how to produce this state and apply it in practice.

Concerning the methods of producing the state of hypnosis,

every operator has some special method that he prefers above all

others. There is no objection to any of those in ordinary use

to-day. Braid's method was to have the patient seated comfort

ably, then to look upwards at some bright object as a crystal,

or a piece of silver, or a diamond, and he must have his eyes

fixed at an angle of about forty-five degrees, and look intently,

not removing his gaze for an instant. This would be continued

until the patient's eyelids dropped involuntarily, even though

the tears streamed down his cheeks before that occurred. Braid

found the majority of patients remained in the hypnotic state

for a time, or until he told them to come out of it, and that those

who did not pass under the peculiar influence at one sitting

would do so at future efforts. He also impressed his patients

through the suggestive power of example, although he did not

intentionally do so ; but when he allowed one patient to see another

go into the sleep it was copied by the second.

It will be noted that almost any number of patients could

be treated at one time by Braid's method by allowing them to sit

and gaze and go into the hypnotic state and come out of it at a

word from him, the symptoms in the meantime having disap

peared, at least partially. If I had any occasion to produce the

state in any large number of persons at a time, I should even

in these days use Dr. Braid's method. As will be seen further on,

there is never occasion upon which it is necessary to produce the

effect on a large number.

The method that I have used chiefly in my practice has been

to hold some object at a distance of two or three feet in front

of the patient's eyes, also at about an angle spoken of previously.

But I do not continue that gaze until the patient's eyes are com

pelled to close, but only sufficiently long to tire the lids so that they

will remain closed without any difficulty when I request the patient

to close his eyes. I have found no evidence that there is any

purpose in the gaze than to fatigue the eyes, so that the

patient is glad to have them closed. After the eyes are closed, I

place a finger in the corner of each eye, pressing upward upon

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the nerves there which have such relationships to nerve centers

as to assist in the quieting of the patient's mental action.

Of course, the patient is comfortably seated, and if in a rock

ing chair, there is some support placed under the rocker, so that

there will be no strain upon the muscles of his limbs, for perfect

relaxation must be provided for and will occur before the patient

can possibly be placed in the hypnotic state.

The gaze at the object and the pressure upon the nerves in the

corner of the eyes may occupy five minutes of time, and during

the five minutes, I have continued to say in a somewhat monoton

ous tone, but surely a soothing one, that the patient is so com

fortable and quiet, relaxed and passive, that he can easily think

of sleep, and what a desirable condition sleep would be; that all

that I am saying and doing is soothing to his nerves ; that he feels

perfectly at ease, has no fears, for he knows that everything is all

right, and that there will be no violence of any kind, for he is only

taking a good rest.

Out of the many hundred that I have actually produced the

hypnotic state in, I have never seen one instance where there is

any nervous excitement, or anything else except perfect calm

ness and peace. Even by the Braid method, there is not often any

nervous manifestation, but always in using the soothing method of

the touch and reassuring words, there is nothing but the most

beautiful and desirable occurs.

It is necessary to explain to the beginner that the subject may

be in a hypnotic state very profoundly, yet in the absence of sug

gestion, no effect be produced upon any of the senses; he must

learn that there is absolutely no change in the senses affected by

the hypnotic state itself; that forgetfulness (amnesia) does not

characterize the state even though it is deep. The loss of pain,

or the inhibition of hearing only occur by specific suggestion.

It being true that the deeper states result only from repeated

sittings, we can make these much more quickly effectual if we

suggest at the first sitting that at the next he will go more deeply

in the passivity. His final state, if he reach hypnosis, is that in

which he is susceptible to suggestion and will respond to

any suggestion given him that is not contrary to his auto

suggestion. Following the method indicated above, repeat

edly for from one to five sittings, is requisite for an

average person to be prepared for a surgical operation in dentistry,

or other surgery, or diseases that call for the hypnotic state. The

hypnotic state is chiefly valuable in laboratory demonstrations,

where we want to show the phenomena of sub-conscious powers

for surgery or treatment of epilepsy. In the treatment of epil

epsy, it has been found successful to produce the hypnotic state,

and so train the patient that he would remain in the hypnotic state

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for several days at a time. When the time is at hand when he

would ordinarily have his epileptic attack, if he is placed in the

hypnotic state, and especially in the cataleptic state, and kept in

that condition over the period, one not only has the advantage of

breaking up the periodicity of the paroxysms, but has the most

favorable time in which to repeatedly impress the suggestions that

none of the epileptic symptoms will occur.

In giving the treatment by suggestion in such a case, the oper

ator should aim to counteract by specific mention all the symptoms

that have usually been present in that particular individual, and

also to suggest emphatically that the conditions causing the parox

ysms are being overcome.

It is inherent in the soul to know what the cause of the disease

is, but thus far it has not been possible for the pathologist to

discover the cause of the attacks unless from the history there

is a traumatic cause. Since the percentage of the epileptics is

small, to the one who is in the general practice, we can see that

the hypnotic state is very rarely necessary.

In addition to the above, the importance of hypnotism in the

laboratory work must be fully appreciated. Whatever advance

ment has been made in placing psychology on a practical basis is

due to the study of that science through hypnotic demonstrations.

Hypnosis bears the same relationship to psychology that dissect

ing the physical body does to the science of anatomy. In the

absence of physical dissections, we know very little about the

body, either in structure or function. Without the dissection

of the mind we were just as ignorant as to the marvelous revela

tions that have come through our intimate association with all

forms of mental action as made possible through hypnotized

persons.

I do not want to be thought by anyone to be making any

apology for not using the hypnotic state in the practice of sug

gestive therapeutics. I simply quit it for the reason that it was

unnecessary to produce this hypnotic sleep in order to make the

suggestions successful.

In view of the fact that it is not necessary to use this hypnosis

in any general way in the practice, and with every decade it is

becoming less a factor in psycho-therapeutics, I do not think it

worth while to entertain a lengthy denial of the false charges that

have been made against that form of mental phenomenon. It is

a fact, however, that hypnotism and crime never did and never

will enter into successful partnership. No person could be either

the victim or the agent of crime through hypnosis, unless in reality

a criminal already at heart.

When my pupil has studied the subject of auto-suggestion,

and has learned, too, that there is no unconscious state produced,

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he will see it is not necessary to even make a defense under the

ignorant claim that hypnosis could be a practical criminal agent.

It is remarkable that it has not been generally known by oper

ators that there could not be an unconscious state in, hypnosis.

The modern psychologist knows that the objective mind is not put

into abeyance or out of existence, but has been brought into one

ness with the superconscious mind or soul, which is more acutely

conscious than the objective mind alone could be ; the soul becomes

possessed of all the objective mind knows or controls, as well as

inherently being possessed of the involuntary powers. This latter

statement explains the seeming superhuman physical strength in

one while in the sub-conscious state.

I have said above that it has a more acute consciousness than

the objective mind. This is proven by the discernment of sounds

that cannot be caught in the active state. Indeed, all of the

senses are intensified or exalted. Then, with increased physical

power, heightened consciousness, telepathic rapport enables the

subject to anticipate every movement of the operator, and, having

access to all the knowledge of the objective, plus that of the

soul, with its own inherent perceptions, if a crime were contem

plated at all by the operator, one would be in a better state for

defense than in the normal.

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^»" HUS far I have indicated the great value of practical psy-

£^ chology when pertaining to the physical body. I now

^**^ want to consider the subject of the relation of psychology,

especially with the department of suggestion to character changes.

The value of suggestion as the science in moral reform isbeginning to be appreciated, and I hope to have every parentand teacher and every other good citizen informed as to thepossibilities and how to use the subjective mind in its characterbuilding capacity.

I recall an excellent illustration in this line in my personal

experience in my early days of practice when I was using the

hypnotic state as a means to the best result in all kinds of sugges

tive treatments. A young man of 18 years came in answer to an

advertisement of mine, 'which called for subjects that I could use

in my class work in demonstration. He was so thoroughly degen

erate in appearance that I was on the point of dismissing him

without investigating as to his adaptability to my needs, when it

occurred to me that here is an opportunity to discover whether

the germ of good ever does completely die out. Every character

of evil habits mentionable or otherwise and dissipations and ex

cesses in every form were easily discerned. I first developed

him in such a way as to give every physical demonstration such

as anesthesia, catalepsy, also the various phenomena in hallucina

tions. I gave him suggestions which he had accepted, which pre

vented him from remembering when in the active state what was

said or done during his hypnotic. After he had been so thor

oughly developed as a subject I began suggesting to him that

he would commence to think about changing his habits. Even

though he was in a deep passivity and I began talking upon his

changing his desires, his countenance indicated his amusement

at such an idea. I saw no promise of immediate response to

those suggestions, but one day he mentioned to me about a certain

companion of his whose intentions were of a nature that the boy

and I agreed that he would certainly get into serious trouble and

receive punishment. I advised my subject to caution the young

man, and if possible prevent him from the evil thing. My boy

was interested and engaged himself in behalf of his companion

and informed me that he thought that we would keep him out

of his trouble. I followed the line indicated here, telling him

we would go into further partnerships to help his friends, and

possibly we would get them out of many wrong ways. My ex

perience with this youth, who was so thoroughly a reprobate and

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past having any interest in himself, except to gamble and car-

rouse, yet who would take an interest in helping his associates

into better ways, would prove that every individual is a savior.

After succeeding in interesting him in the other individual, I sug

gested to him that if he and I were to help others that we at least

should be ourselves what we required or advised in them. He

responded to that suggestion, and of himself asked that I would

help him get rid of the tendencies and overcome the habits so

far as it was possible. He was an incessant gambler with cards.

He seldom had any money except the small winnings, and he sel

dom purchased for himself even the required clothing. To assist

him in freeing himself from the associations, I gave him a hyp

notic suggestion that he could not shuffle the cards; that his fin

gers would involuntarily stick to the card. He reported to me that

he did not know what was the matter with him, that he could

not pick up or let go of the cards, and that his companions had

put him out, because they thought he was only making fun of

them. I was along with this giving suggestions that he would

have no desires for the place. I also gave the suggestion that it

would be physical impossibility for him to lift a glass containing

alcoholic liquors of any kind to his lips. That the odors, as well as

the taste of any such stuff would make him desperately sick at his

stomach. All of this proved out in his experience. These physical

aids were very helpful in every way, and made it much easier to

correct his habits than it would have been had we left the body

demanding that which had been the occasion of habit, but by

changing his desires from fondness to disgust, or inability physi

cally to perform or enjoy, we had made the treatment much more

safe. These suggestions and others, as we saw them needed,

I gave him during about six months. At the end of that time he

had greatly improved in his appearance, and was very little of his

former self in many of his aspirations. Where he simply would

not work under any circumstances, he had become a good citizen

and gone to work in the iron works. The reform of this young

man would scarcely have taken place, even though I had him in the

hypnotic state, had I not first interested him in reforming

his companions and then to change his own practices to be consis

tent with what he was advising others. The first suggestions I

gave him did not even awaken aspirations, but only aroused con

tempt, and I should like to give instances here leading to the dis

covery of how we are inherently disposed to help one another. I

presume I would best make plain some features that belong to

such cases. There is no objection to the hypnotic state under any

circumstances, but as so few understand it correctly, it is well that

any student of this subject should be fully assured that the hyp

notic state is not essential, but that a passive state is ample for

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the purposes. Suggestions repeatedly given go just as deep, when

the individual is passive and hears the suggestions, as if he were

in the deep stages of hypnosis. The superficial individual might

say that this boy was reformed against his will. In fact a man

claiming the title of M. D. published that I did a most repre

hensible thing in changing this boy from a vagabond who had

no hesitancy at any crime or practice, into a well-appearing, neatly

kept, industrious, good citizen, because, said this man, I dethroned

his will. The true situation all of this time had been that a little

particle of conscience was telling this boy to be different, and

therefore the soul or the real self had always willed that he

be what he afterward became. It is true his objective, or sense

department, preferred or willed to the contrary. The literal thing

that took place in my treatment was to bring his objective will into

co-operation with the will of his superior self, and his character

and practice were beautified accordingly.

Of course, with the exception of reform institutions, not many

of us would have opportunity to treat such extreme moral con

ditions, but the lesson is here for every one, which is to realize

that just exactly as there is the healing power in the patient with

reference to his own body, and that power operates under sugges

tion, just so does that power abide in the individual with reference

to his own habits or character. Then after we recognize the

power and where it is, and under what law it acts, we are prepared

to remove from or add to the habits or traits, whether they are

for small changes, or the great reforms. Again, I want my

reader to avail himself of the principles that have been revealed to

me in my laboratory work, for although the hypnotic state was

used in the particular illustration, the inestimable value of our

lesson is in learning the principle. We see how the force of habit

had become the prevailing suggestion that overwhelmed this boy's

life. He not only willed to do wrong, but after his inclinations

were changed he did wrong many times involuntarily, and to assist

in overcoming the things that he yielded to, that he did not want

to do, I gave him the suggestion that made it a physical impos

sibility to perform certain acts. This supported him while he was

gaining spiritual strength.

A practical lesson for the parent, after he or she sees from

this case that the power is in the child and is controllable by sug

gestion, really being the soul, compelling expressions, that it has

been made to really expect, then if that expectancy or habit is in

the soul and is something that should be corrected, since we find

that suggestions or ideas introduced into the soul, changes or

determines its expectancy, regardless of what the method might

be by which we could introduce that idea into the soul, if it were

only introduced there it would work the change. The parent has

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every opportunity to give these suggestions in the most forceful

way. Let the child or other person go to sleep, while conversa

tion, consisting of commands, or prophecies that the habit or

symptom will disappear, and though this may seem to be so simple

as to appear foolish, yet it is being demonstrated in thousands

of instances that the result comes as predicted. Again, we are

proving a principle, for if the soul is the power and is control

lable by suggestion and the child or other person becomes an

expression of whatever is the ruling suggestion in his soul, then

if the suggestion is impressed upon him, whether he is passive or

active, or under emotion, it makes no difference as to the result.

It is true that in the active state one is not so susceptible to sug

gestion, yet if the active mind is made to absolutely believe, which

it has a tendency to do under the constant impress of a picture,

then the suggestion constantly repeated in his hearing may get to

his soul, after which it comes out in expression involuntarily.

Learning all that is embraced in these principles, the awful sugges

tions will cease to be given to children or to others, but the avoid

ance of unseemly word pictures will be rigidly observed. Every

home almost needs revision under these revelations, for the family

conversation, contentions and predictions, as interchanged between

members of the household, would be regarded as actual realiza

tions that sooner or later would be complete.

Our subject of moral reform has such far-reaching capacities

that it takes in the suggestions that we give and receive in our

daily lives, and so we come to this conclusion, based upon scien

tific demonstration, that the highest possibilities of the individual

can only be attained when we say to another, or to oneself, only

those words that_ represent what we would, under our highest

ideal, want to become realized, for this is the process that first

there is the thought and a repetition of the thought, the word

picturing of the thought, then it is character, and character brings

into form the perfect realization, even to materialization of itself.

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Cells

•^»" HE data which has been heretofore given would call up to Intelligence

\^} every reader his personal experiences, in which he would of the

^^"^ find abundant evidence to establish the firmest conviction

that the principles of psychology, as we have stated them, are

correct.

I feel that the beauty of the simple way in which we have

stated these facts and recited the therapeutic experiences is that

it brings within the grasp of every one the practicality of all our

claims.

Every man has hundreds of demonstrations that he can recall

with understanding now that he sees the basic principles under

lying the psychological phenomena.

Not being accustomed to thinking of the subjective mind

power, it is a little difficult at first to understand how it acts.

A man is impressed with wonder the first time that he sees

a magnet attract a metal, and even though insulation, as thick

glass placed between the magnet and the metal, the attraction

continued. He cannot through his senses appreciate how it is done.

The same wonderment was felt when the street car was hurled

by the invisible force of electricity through the streets. After a

little while these things became so common that we give no

thought, let alone wonderment, as we see the effect of a cause that

few try to understand.

The telephone and telegraph only lose their intensity in their

approach to the marvelous because of their universal use. The

wireless telegraph has not ceased to attract notice, but how soon

we will be so accustomed to sending our messages without the

wire, and yet without thought as to the phenomena!

In psychic matters, we find that, as patients or operators, to

become accustomed to the phenomena in such a manner as to

feel no particular wonderment concerning them is helpful.

For the sake of becoming familiar with psychic matters I take

up the various phases of the question leading along all the roads

to the one destination of the soul, the supreme power over the

body.

In taking up the question of mind in the cell, I bring the

student to a point of view that he can see the whole question in

its greatest simplicity. It soon becomes easy, when we study the

science of psychology from this standpoint, to realize that the

body is not the man.

In our laboratory of histology we find that the animal body

is comprised of microscopic organisms that we call cells. That

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every tissue of the body, hair, nails, skin, muscles, nerves, bone,

marrow, blood, brain and tissues that comprise the various special

organs, every portion is made up of the tiny particles, the cells.

In our chemical laboratory we learn that the elements present

in all of the cells are the same, but the different proportion in their

chemical compound determines the character of the tissue that

each cell forms. Such being the case, any cell of any tissue

would be a physical representation of the whole body.

Now when these cells of all the tissues are in their places, and

their perfect union exists, comprising the complete structure, such

as a man's body, after having seen so many demonstrations, it is

a matter of no doubt and of easy understanding that mind con

trols the organism resulting from the union of cells and their

tissues.

Many years back we began taking up the brain cells, .nd how

the mind used them as its organ, but it is the modern psychologist

who has combined his laboratories of chemistry, histology and

microscopy with his psychological, that has made it just as scien

tific to speak of all the cells and the tissues being organs of the

mind, as being spoken of the brain cells. That every cell is an

intelligent individual of itself is of very recent revelation, and yet

is capable of practical demonstration.

We can take the cells from any tissue of the human body,

and placing them upon the microscopic slide, bring the smallest

amount of nitro-glycerin in 'proximity with the cells, and they

make rapid flight and get as far away from the drug as possible.

They seem to recognize the poison as a deadly enemy that they

resist with all their force.

In another experiment we will take some opium and put it in

the place of the nitro-glycerin, and we will find that the cells

make resistance an instant, and immediately give a quiver and

succumb, as though the very aroma narcotized them.

It is exceedingly interesting and instructing to deal with the

cells in such examination with all the different drugs, but we will

give just one more that will show particularly the point that

we are making plain.

Then in the third demonstration, we will use capsicum as we

did the other drugs, when we find that the little individuals we

have spoken of as cells, weave themselves up, even coming in

touch with that stimulant. They embrace the capsicum with a

friendly enthusiasm in marked contrast to the emotion with which

they fled from the other classified stimulant, nitro-glycerin.

It took mind in the cells to distinguish between the two stimu

lants, to determine which was the foe and which was the friend.

Our great intellects have not shown as much intelligence as has

been demonstrated by the smallest portion of a man's body.

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The law of self preservation is inherent in the cells, and the

above is one of the simplest proofs of that. When there is a

'destruction of some tissue of the body, the part is replaced by

the reproduction of cells. That is true of every tissue of the body,

because every tissue is made up of cells containing life or mind,

and the law of reproduction governs every cell.

We find that in the one cell animal the laws of self preservation

and reproduction are inherent, and that is just as true of the indi

vidual cell wherever it is found and whatever it may be a part of.

Whether it is fulfilling its function in conjunction with other like

cells, or whether its office is fulfilled as an independent proto

plasmic entity, it is governed by these two laws.

We find that the amoeba, the one-cell creature, recognizes its

enemies and makes flight, intelligently selecting its hiding place,

and that it recognizes the substances upon which it develops by

appropriating its food, which actions demonstrate mind selection.

In fulfilling its elements of development, it ultimately divides itself

according to the law of its reproduction of its kind.

The larger animals, representing the union of a multiplicity of

cells, and each species having its peculiar requirements as to organs

of self-defense and means of preservation, have increased powers

of intelligent action. We find them with the tentacles with which

to make successful combat, and it determines whether or not it is

safe to enter into a physical engagement, or to take safety in flight

and refuge in a place of hiding which it selects. We find this in

telligent action, and yet no brain organism, up to the crab. We have

in these illustrations full evidence that mind is in the cells of the

body ; that the union of mind power of all the cells comprises

the complete individual intelligence. We find in man a like or

ganism, so far as the cell is concerned, and so we conclude,

reasonably, that mind is present in every part of man's body.

No effort will be made here to prove whether or not there is

one class of mental manifestations confined to the brain cells

and another to the cells in other parts of the organism. There

might be some evidence gotten together to indicate that the men

tality of all the cells of the body would constitute one class of

mind function, and the brain have an entirely different class of

functions to perform, and some reasoning might be adduced to

indicate that the objective used the brain cells and the soul used

the body cells. But for all practical purposes, brain and body

compose the organs of the two-fold mental manifestation, and it

seems simpler than to take the head off and say that we have in

one portion the objective mind and in the other the subjective.

So far as function is concerned, it seems that an individual cell

has the power of reasoning, and of all other mental exercises

save that, possibly of being conscious of itself.

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^^NDER normal conditions, just as the amoeba selects that

JJ\ that which is food for it, so does the soul in the human

^** body bring to itself that which it needs for health and

sustenance.

In a state of health, this numerous family, comprised of all

the cells of the body, is in co-operation so perfect that each

member is supplied with every need.

It is inherent in the individual cell to know what it needs,

and their united action in that department of the mind known as

the soul prompts the selection that should be made for the bodily

supplies.

But, upon the question of food, as well as of morals, that

still small voice from within only prompts, and does not compel,

it being mind's prerogative to obey the soul or let the desires

that originate in the senses, which act through the objective mind,

have dominion.

So, contrary to intuition, one breaks the laws of dietetics and

hygiene, and forces upon the body that which cannot be applied

by that intelligence that is presiding over assimilation. And so

there is a shortage of the elements for all the cells of the body,

or it may be that some especial tissue is a great sufferer from the

substitution that man, in his free will, has chosen to offer as food.

Nerve and brain starvation seems to be the most usual of all

physical lacks. The soul does not cease its efforts to cause the

mind to supply what is needed for the sustenance of the body

in all its departments, for even through pain or exhaustion, or

some other untoward symptom, it makes one aware of the need.

He misinterprets this, creates wrong cravings, which he attempts

to satisfy by giving to his body substances entirely foreign to

nature, and the vital force, which is another name for soul,

cannot appropriate the things substituted. It tolerates, but does

not grow strong and perfect in the absence of the elements that

are essential to every cell of the body.

It may be that being compelled to put up with false condi

tions that the cell intelligence accepts the suggestion, finally, that

that which is really abnormal is normal. So it carries out to the

full limit of its power the suggestion that is given it, and inten

sifies the abnormality. This results in many peculiar functional

disorders.

The neuresthenic is a perfect bundle of those. He is a perfect

demonstration of cell insanity, and the cells that are not acting

sanely may be in one part of the body or another, or may be

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present wherever a certain tissue exists that has become wrong in

its performance.

If this were strictly a medical book, I would work out to its

full conception what is properly classified as insanity of the cell.

We call it insanity, ordinarily, when the objective mind fails

to perform its office properly, as indicated when the senses do

not convey the right impression to the brain, and when one

ceases to put the right interpretation upon the objects concerning

which we form an acquaintance through the objective mind he

is pronounced insane. When the cells, as individuals, or as a

whole, cease to perform normally, that is just as truly insanity.

It would be interesting to take up the diseases with which we

are acquainted, and show to what extent the real condition is

that of insanity of the cell.

This we do know, that in the condition of disease law is

broken and the soul is the power that possibly has, under wrong

suggestion, produced wrong manifestations, and used its supreme

power in the wrong direction.

As the result of its various means of notification that the

body needs attention, the patient decides to correct the evil, and

then he finds that the soul is a forgiving power, ready to co

operate, anxious to receive that which will be food for it, con

taining the right elements to supply all of the needs of the

organism in which he lives.

The disordered conditions have been so impressed upon it

that its continuation to preside over the vital systems will not

correct the disorders, but it has to perform some especial, specific

action before things can be corrected and adjusted.

Mind, which has always been the sentry, must still be that, and

issue instructions to the soul, in order to cause the soul to make

its especial expression in the cure of the disease symptoms.

Through the mind the direction must be given and the soul

caused to expect a change for the better. The law governing

thought action is the introduction of that idea into the soul,

and the best form for that accomplishment is through suggestion.

It is possible that the soul has been so impressed by mind as

to have its faith firmly fixed in a certain material remedy. It may

be a drug, or anything else in the universe. Grant the soul its

conditions, and cure will follow. If its demands are for some

process that cannot be met, then the soul's standard must be cor

rected by introducing a counteracting suggestion and substituting

some other practical process, which may just as well be the exclu

sion of all material remedies, for the soul has to do the work,

either in co-operation with material things, or accepting the sug

gestion and producing the corrections needed without any such

means. It is able to accomplish the results desired through either

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means. The exceptions would be in certain organic troubles where

tissues have been so far consumed that reproduction of the cells

of that tissue is impossible, because the parent cells are insufficient.

For instance, in advanced consumption, there is not enough

tissue left to, by the most rapid multiplication of cells possible,

even under stimulant, supply that which has been destroyed.

Another exception would be where a material remedy in

which there was subjective faith of such a character as to cause

a general revolt of the system when it was given. Nature co

operates with some remedies, but it certainly does revolt at

others.

Over-appreciation of the fact that the mind is in the cell is

not possible to the operator or patient. It is a most valuable idea,

because it makes treatment so simple and practical.

It may be that the brain is the central point for the receipt and

radiation of all impressions. A line of communication between

that central point and any given tissue of its cells, is so simple

and easy since the correspondence from cell to cell, and between

cells, is understood, that all are intelligent messengers, and each,

knowing its own needs and its fellows' needs, being of like mind

and substance, surely co-operation is the rule. We can stimulate

here and relax there; we can reduce congestion because every

congestion can be removed; because every local particle is influ

enced by the general.

Where there is excessive nutrition, we can dissipate attention,

and where there is lack we can concentrate, overcoming waste

and atrophy, all by working through the general intelligence,

being in rapport with each member. Suggestion is the key to all

especial action, and that may be throughout the whole system,

or in any part.

There are no forces within the body but what are con

trolled by the soul. The psychic power governs the magnetic

and electrical forces; it absolutely determines the chemical and

metabolic, or katabolic, action, perfectly obedient to whatever

instructions are given through the soul.

That the effect of suggestion may be general or circum

scribed, is capable of a very simple demonstration, where, by

suggestion, we remove all sense of pain from the body, or, as in

a number of hypnotic demonstrations, we give the suggestion that

sensibility exists in the whole body, except just at the point of

the needle.

After giving the suggestion that there was a spot the size of a

needle point that was in a state of anesthesia, and introducing the

needle, found it true, that the introduction of a second needle as

close as possible would produce pain. Inhibition, just as sug

gested, can be realized.

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I am thoroughly convinced that the fact of mind in the cell

makes plain to the student that which seemed so difficult of under

standing and appreciation in the practice of psycho-therapy.

In a book covering the general field of psychology, I do not

feel warranted in dwelling at all exhaustively upon the subject

of mind in the cell, but I will call the attention of the man that

wants to think, that cell structure and mind in the cell are just

the same, whether the cell be in one kingdom or another. In

the flower there is that material structure in which mind is

master, and is the life.

Material and spiritual, the cell in vegetable kingdom is like that

in the man's body. If mind be in the cell, as plainly demonstrated

through our various laboratories and their combination, then it

must be evident that there is mind in the atoms that comprise the

cells.

Finding that mind is the creator, making the form by select

ing the substance that it needs in order to fulfill its function, then

it is mind in the atom, and mind manifested through the atom,

uniformly and universally.

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■^^ ELEPATHY is usually defined as being the transference Telepathy

L^ of thought from one person to another by other than

' ^*"^ objective methods—words and signals. It has been

taught as a thought conceived by one person's mind and trans

mitted to and received by another mind.

Very careful and scientific demonstration and study have

shown that thought transference is really the transmission from

one soul to another soul; that this wide awake objective, what we

usually speak of as the conscious mind, is not the mentality

that can either send or receive thought telepathically.

I dare say that we shall come to an understanding through the

illustrations, as well as the principles, as to the workings of the

soul in this matter, and the relationship of mind to soul in the

exercise.

The objective mind may conceive a thought with reference

to another person, and desire the communication to be trans

mitted. What really takes place then is that the transmitter,

through his objective mind effort, places upon his soul the sug

gestion to communicate the thought to the recipient. That intel

ligence, through processes that are based upon science, causes the

communication to go out, and it is the function of the soul to

which the thought is aimed to receive the message, if rappdrt has

been established between them.

It being the case that the sub-conscious mind receives the

message would account for the fact that we become conscious

of such a small percentage of the messages that we know, through

our science, really are received by our souls.

Those we have developed until they are adepts in what we

usually call mind reading, but are really soul readers, make us

acquainted with so much that our friends have transmitted to

us, both voluntarily and involuntarily.

A psychic, reading my soul, has revealed to me the affairs of

people that are in rapport with me, and yet the particular points

of information in many instances would not seem to have any

bearing upon our mutual interests, and would not concern me at

all, and the transmitter did not take any objective, or conscious

thought, or make any effort to impress me with such data.

We get to realize that the soul has a world of its own, and

carries on its exchange of correspondence. There is no doubt

that every one of us is carrying out the desire of other souls

with which we are in rapport, unconsciously to ourselves and

them.

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The purpose of this portion of this book is to put this matter

on a basis that we will utilize this principle to the good of our

selves and those with whom we are in mental touch. We learn

the value of a thought we become acquainted with its eternal

influence upon the originator, and all of those with whom he is in

rapport.

In my illustrations of this subject, I aim to select some that

will impress the principles the best. The complete history of the

past year would make a volume larger than this entire book,

and I do not think that I shall go back of that period.

The first proposition that I want attention given to is that the

soul transmits to another a perfect copy of what is enrolled upon

it. As to when this transmission takes place, concerning any

particular experience, is difficult to settle. We will afford you the

experiences, and you may draw your own conclusions. That will

be helpful, and may cause such investigations as to presently fix

upon the question of prophecy.

A psychic whom I was developing several months since came

for her sitting on Friday night. She said : "I saw you go out

of a building yesterday, and after getting out on the sidewalk, you

halted, and, after hesitating a moment, turned around and went

back in and up an elevator, as though you had forgotten some

thing." Being asked when she saw that, she replied, "At four

o'clock in the afternoon."

What I actually did was to go to the public library with two

cards calling for books. When my name was called, I took the

book, assuming that both cards were in the book, as one had

probably not drawn what it called for. When I got down to the

sidewalk, I was impressed suddenly that possibly the other card

had not been handed me, and upon opening the book, I discov

ered that such was the case. I returned to the fifth floor, and my

second card had been called out with its book. That was between

ten and eleven o'clock Thursday, whereas the Psychic said she

saw me at four o'clock, or about that.

This would, of itself, be evidence that she became conscious

of the matter at four o'clock, but at some previous time to that her

soul had received the correct impress of the circumstances.

In taking her psychic development at my hands, I had advised

her sitting quiet and passive at some time during each day, being-

perfectly neutral, making no effort to receive any certain impres

sions from any certain sources, but to be open for impressions.

That sitting and passivity is simply a means by which the con

scious mind reaches into the sub-conscious and learns that is

there.

Objectively I thought nothing of the psychic at the time I was

having this experience, nor did I at any time conceive of the idea

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of impressing her with the occurrence. She was under a sugges

tion that I had given her that our rapport would be perfect, and

that she would keep in touch with all my movements. That was

as much a suggestion to my own soul to convey to her as it was

hers to receive.

With a limited experience, one would say positively that the

lady received, in her soul, the information as given above, at the

moment of the occurrence, and that in the passivity, her conscious

mind got it from her soul.

There is not any doubt as to when she became conscious of

the communication, but there are experiences that would prevent

us from being able to say with certainty that she received the

message at the moment of its occurrence, for it is just as likely

that she knew of it in her soul before as afterwards. For she had

read my soul, and in many instances had made me aware of

things that ultimately occurred, of which I had no expectancy

or consciousness at the time.

As an illustration of the fact that she could have told me on

Wednesday night that on Thursday morning I would have that

experience ; and if she could have told me on Wednesday night

before, she could probably just as well have told me a month

or a year before.

February 8th, in the evening, a young lady whom I was devel

oping said : "I see a rickety old wagon ; looks like it has been in

an accident and is wrecked, and the wheel is off in front of your

house." She was not sufficiently developed at that time to distin

guish an occurrence of the past from one that would be. I told

her that I could recall no such matter.

The following afternoon, which was February 9th, a colored

man with a load of ashes was driving by when a front wheel

gave way and broke every spoke. He carried the rim of the

wheel and the broken spokes, and placed them on the sidewalk

in front of my door, where they remained until the following day.

There are just two dates of that circumstance that are cer

tain. The first is that at nine o'clock, February 8th, the descrip

tion of the matter was given me, and at three o'clock February 9th

I became conscious of the whole matter.

It surely is not necessary at this day to enter into even a dis

cussion as to the source of the information which the psychic

gives one. In these experiences my own soul held the facts,

and these psychics, being in the passive state, were in rapport with

my soul, and obtained from me that which I was not even con

scious of. They became the mediums between my sub-conscious

and my conscious minds. And so the hundreds of instances in

which these persons and scores of others that I have had asso

ciated with my work, whenever they told me of persons with

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whom I was and would be related to as patients or pupils, or

in some business matter, received the information from me, for

I was in rapport with all of them, and also with my psychics.

The old belief was that a psychic had some peculiar means by

which she could travel all over the world, if necessary, and pick

up from one individual here and another one there and make a

man acquainted with his affairs. I believe I could furnish a thou

sand experiences, any one of which would satisfy anyone that the

science of the thing is that the psychic receives the data that

concerns an individual directly from the individual's sub-conscious

mind, for in that is registered his past, in that perfect memory,

and all that his relationships may cause other persons to

come in touch with him—all of that data is registered in that

same soul, and also in the department of the soul is held the

picture of the experiences with which he will yet meet.

It is but a trifle, but I refer to the wagon wheel experience

because I have already described it, and it could not have been

foretold and accounted for because of any man having pre

viously thought of the matter as something he would bring to

pass, and so my soul could not have been conscious of it from

any such means.

It is inherent in the soul to know its future, and it takes

account of the minutest experiences. Indeed, we see such experi

ences day after day, one becomes convinced that the hairs of

our heads are numbered, and the sub-conscious mind knows the

number, and that it takes account of the fall of a sparrow.

The soul is omniscient, at least so far as its individual interests

and relationships are concerned. It is omnipotent so far as the

physical body is concerned, in which it lives. And it is omni

present, being in every atom of every cell of every tissue com

prising the body.

I have broken abruptly into the heart of this subject, not

aiming to set forth a lot of terms that cause confusion to the

student, and give him the suggestion that the question of tele

pathy is one to entangle him and in which nothing can be

made clear.

This is a practical book, and the author has associated with the

subjects herein taught until it is a matter of no more surprise

that a thought should be transmitted and received, even word for

word, as literally as though it had been written or spoken, or

given by any other code.

With the data I have recorded, I am not surprised when

matters occur according to the written description of them, even

though a psychic dictated the words in that description weeks

before the occurrences. It no longer astounds me that the small

est detail of my past life, as well as important experiences, should

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be given me by one with whom I am in rapport, if that one

is in the state of passivity.

This does not involve any necessity for the psychic to be devel

oped into a state of hypnosis and receive her psychic development

afterwards; but just as in suggestive therapeutics we have those

who have shown evidences of gift in receiving correct impressions

from other souls, who become passive in the same manner as our

patients, but receive the literal suggestion that make them keener

in rapport; in other words, prepare them to have that control

of the psychic power that they can cause other souls to impress

upon their conscious minds the data or any particular items that

it might be desirable to know of.

Being scientifically developed, they are able to cut off rapport

from all those that would be depressing to them, or in any way

objectionable, or to open the doors of the soul to any that they

might desire communications from; in other words, to establish

or cut off rapport when and where they please.

This is far superior to the hap-hazard practice of psychics,

for, unscientifically trained, they are susceptible to the influence

of every person, and especially to influences that are for their

physical and mental disadvantage.

Many good psychics are under the impression that the data

is brought to them through spirit control ; that is, departed spirits,

and so make themselves responsive to every unwholesome com

munication from other people, and their own whims as well.

This book is not for the purpose of discussing the possibility of

communications between souls in the present environment and

these who have made the transition.

The information which comes through mind-reading we will

consider from the scientific standpoint of soul speaking to soul

in the present environment, for that we know is done, and any

phenomena that we cannot account for scientifically we will give

no consideration or claim to. The past, present, and future are

given by psychics that are developed through suggestion.

The perfect memory, which is a faculty of the soul; the knowl

edge of the present and the picture of the future, and it being

the function of the soul to convey that copy to the sub-conscious

mind (the soul) of others, will cover all the scope of this book

in its argument and history.

While it is true that comparatively a small percentage of per

sons have the gift of competent mediumship to come in between

the sub-conscious and the conscious minds of another individual,

yet it is sufficiently common and frequently enough demonstrated

to carry conviction that every person with whom we come in

rapport gives us a copy of himself and receives from us likewise

a copy.

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■^^" HE psychic power, as pertains to that ability to become con- How to

\^} scious of what is in one's own sub-conscious mind or in Become aanother's, is a spiritual gift. It is a quality of the soul psvchic

that is present in everyone. It is upon the same basis as music, or

any other art. All are spiritual characteristics, and common to all.

In some, music is prominent and the other items latent, and in so

little evidence that it would not justify the cultivation that would

be necessary to develop anything save music.

This psychic power being a spiritual gift, is sufficient index

to demand cultivation to the most perfect state possible.

As instructor I am constantly importuned to undertake devel

opment of persons who have envied the perfection that they have

observed in someone else. It is upon the same principle that many

a man, under the inspiration of fine execution of music, feels a

thrill, and creates in himself a desire and aspiration to do the

same, but yet, in his ordinary state of mind, he would know that

music was not a permanent presence in his makeup, and that

whatever he might do, it would be mechanical.

Where music is prominent in one's soul, it is demanding ex

pression in such a way that it is irresistible; as a child he is con

stantly developing some means to give expression to what he

feels in music, and the desire is irresistible.

Now, one in whom there is psychic power will be frequently

giving expression to those things that he has received from other

persons telepathically. To some such persons, truths come

through dreams, but nothing is more haphazard than dreams, and

during emotional states, regardless of the cause of emotion, the

sub-conscious is blending with the conscious in such a way that the

person will foretell, to some extent, and frequently will be giving

expression to matters concerning others with whom he or she is in

rapport, that have not been known through the external methods.

Attempts have been made by various writers to show that

certain temperaments were especially apt as psychics. A general

experience does not warrant one in such limitation.

That proposition is very much like the fight between the

Liebault Hospital of Suggestion and Charcot's, in which Charcot

took the position that only nervous diseases could be successfully

treated by suggestion, whereas he had no experience with any

other kind, being a specialist.

The blonde and the brunette, male and female, among any

and all, there are those who show traces of merit, that under

proper care will develop into excellent psychics.

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How to train a psychic is rather simple, unless one is fond

of complexity. There are educational and natural peculiarities

that have to be corrected in the candidate for development. Nine-

tenths of them come in with the statement that they have some

evidences of being clairvoyant and invariably, unless they have

read some very modern literature, think that that includes the

power of going from one part of the world to another, and that

to them, clear seeing is the power of being right on the ground

where the thing is taking place, and seeing the occurrence.

Probably another five per cent, at least, think that spirit control

and intercession bring them the facts. This leaves us a small

percentage that may come and say that from many experiences

they think that they can receive and become conscious of the

things that are known to persons with whom they are in rapport.

It is far better to get the ninety per cent, and five per cent,

to have an intelligent and scientific understanding of the prin

ciples upon which their work is based; that is, to show them

that every person communicates with every one else with whom

he is in rapport, and that the recipient unconsciously holds the

information in his sub-conscious mind, or soul ; that if she is a

psychic she reads data from her own soul that has been placed

there telepathically ; that mind-reading, so-called, is really the

conscious mind reaching into the sub-conscious and bringing forth

the contents.

It may make it simpler to the student to refer him to another

instance in which the objective mind reaches into the subjective,

which is of constant occurrence.

The perfect memory is a faculty of the soul ; recollection that

of the mind; and so we are constantly making our records in

the perfect memory, and that which we have occasion to utilize

we bring to hand by recalling—in other words, bringing up from

the soul's memory into the conscious mind that which passed

through the conscious mind and went to the soul.

Now psychic exercise is that in which there is a touch between

the conscious and the sub-conscious that is so perfect that the soul

pushes over into that consciousness the required and desired

matter, or involuntarily places visions, or images, or, as we usually

say, pictures, so plainly before the imagination, and so irresistibly,

that they often disturb the sensitive, until the matter has been

divulged.

I say it is much better for your psychic to understand the

simplicity of this, and to feel that when she is doing what has

been called mind-reading, sometimes termed clear-seeing, or clair

voyance, she is not traveling thousands of miles and having to

penetrate into strange conditions and environments; but that all

that she is finding out is what has come into her soul through

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its rapport with another. That rapport is based upon mental touch

and sympathy. She has to be a receiver that is in perfect attune-

ment to the transmitting soul from which she receives messages.

If one begins to deal with an applicant who is still under the

belief of traveling, or sending the soul, as they sometimes say,

he soon finds that the task seems burdensome and exhausting,

and she seems to be under great strain in order to travel and to

see, or, if she be a believer in the spirit control, she goes through

many contortions and nervous manifestations, seeing that it is

her control that is trying to manifest through her.

You do not have any occasion to tear down her religious belief

in spiritualism, but simply give her to understand that what you

want to do is to develop her psychic, or mind-reading powers,

and that you have nothing to do with her spirit control or her

religious beliefs; that what you want, and that what you think

she really wants, is covered by telepathy. And those persons

know that the complete record is in the soul of the person who

is having the reading, and in their own souls, and not at some

great distance, although the communication might be one that

had come any distance direct to the soul of the psychic, if she

were in rapport with that distant person, or direct to the soul

of the one to whom she is giving the reading, that is in rapport

with the distant locality.

Granting that you can instill this much truth and understanding

into your applicant for development, then have him, or her, sit

in a chair where relaxation is possible, and passivity then obtained,

just as in preparing a patient for treatment. That is, the eyes

are closed, and you in the office of developer place your hand upon

the forehead, not necessarily touching the eyes, but simply keeping

in that touch by which the magnetic exchange may be made, and

rapport more intimately produced.

Begin suggesting: "Your nerves are perfectly quiet; all is

calm and peaceful in our surroundings, and you can become so

thoroughly relaxed and so comfortable now, just as though you

were going to sleep. You will become more and more passive

from moment to moment, and if you do not become perfectly

passive at this sitting, you will in those to come, each time becom

ing more deeply affected. Make no effort to obtain any particular

impression; leave that all to me. And during this sitting do not

speak. You will remember perfectly every impression that may

come to you and be able to tell me all about it after the sitting is

over. By remembering, establishing rapport with me, and obtain

ing the knowledge that I hold of my affairs of present, past and

future, you will become prepared to enter into the rapport with

others at will, and to obtain from them the general or specific

information sought."

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Now I repeat these suggestions two or three times at the

first few sittings, and in addition I suggest that rapport will con

tinue during our separation; that she will become conscious of

communications from me, and from others, during the interval,

all of which she will remember. "This information will impress

itself upon your consciousness, especially during moments of your

passivity and relaxation, in which you seek to be impressed."

I want to inform the reader here that many persons who show

this tendency, and especially men, are very much annoyed by the

pictures that force themselves upon them when their attention is

particularly fixed and probably required, in their affairs, and

for that reason the psychic should be instructed from the first that

she can and should control and regulate the time for the receipt of

these communications from her soul to her mind. If this is not

done there is a strong tendency for these impressions to be carried

over to consciousness both in season and out of season.

Another objection to letting these conditions control us, instead

of our controlling them, is that there is an inclination to go into

the subjective state whenever the soul is making itself known

to the conscious mind. Spending too much time in passivity that

some people term the silence is a more dangerous extreme than

to never become relaxed and passive to allow the soul a chance

to speak.

Passivity is a state in which one is susceptible to suggestion,

and therefore, living in the passivity constantly, or generally,

keeps one under very unwholesome mental and spoken suggestion

of those about.

As beautiful a thing as is music or art, one does not want to

be under the influence of either all the time. That also tends to

exercise the soul to the exclusion of the functions of the objective

mind. When the objective mind is not fulfilling its office, and

correctly, at that, that constitutes insanity.

Going into passivity and utilizing the soul's forces in directing;

them through suggestion, and living in the proper relationship

to the objective mind, allowing it to perform its office as sentry

over the soul keeps one in mental and spiritual equipoise, fulfilling-

the laws that govern mind action.

This convinces one that it is wholesome to give the psychic

suggestions to receive these impressions at a time that he may

select for becoming passive, rather than to have the pictures force

themselves upon him at inopportune moments.

It becomes a most beautiful unfoldment of this spiritual gift ;

to see the advancement from time to time is interesting indeed.

As a general thing, about the fifth sitting I give the psychic

a suggestion that she can talk while in the passive state, and

describe the impressions that she gets, without going out of the

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passivity, and yet that she will remember, when that passivity

is over, the same things, if she cares to recall them.

This is a matter that is entirely optional with the operator

and the patient, and I have generally left it to the preference of

the patient as to whether she will be developed to remember after

she is out of the passive state the experiences of the hour.

As a general thing it is better that she be trained to remember

what occurs during her sittings, in which the operator is in her

immediate presence, because with that training she will be better

adapted to remember what comes to her consciousness during

her passivity when she is at home practising.

The gift is absolutely controllable by suggestion, capable of

being intensified, regulated as to time and as to the character of

the communications to which she will become most susceptible.

The great majority of persons who are aiming at spiritual im

provement will not care to be susceptible to the receipt of evil

communications from those whose predominating thought and the

tendencies of their lives are not uplifting or inspiring of good.

The psychic should be taught that by an act of her will, taking

formal thought and resolution ; in other words, treating her soul

as though it were a distinct entity, and commanding that it would

not be in sympathy and receive communications from certain indi

viduals. Under the laws of rapport I know that this form of appli

cation of suggestion is successful. Furthermore, that if it is not

desired that some individual's whole personality shall be excluded,

certain lines can be accepted and others rejected.

This phase of the question needs considerable treatment.

There is such a large percentage, especially those in the commer

cial line of psychic work, who deal chiefly in giving one all the evil

that is either back of him or before him, and if that is not ample,

she gives him a portion of that which is in her own soul, and will

even weave in the lives of others that are of the same class.

This tendency has discounted the whole field of psychic work,

and prevents the development that many would appreciate if they

knew of the purity and cleanliness of the true psychic work, and

how the psychic can, by taking the suggestion in the above

manner, absolutely and entirely prohibit evil communications from

passing through her.

The very fact that one is living on the high plane is a pretty

sure protection, in a general way, at least against intimate rapport

coming to her from those on the lower.

By far the largest majority of the psychics that I have devel

oped within the last year have been developed because they

believed that it was a gift worthy of development, and that

through their work a better acquaintance of the soul laws could

be had, and they were not commercial psychics.

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The development of psychics, whatever their purpose, is prac

tically the same. An exception might be in that we need to empha

size the suggestion in those who have commercial purposes, to fit

them for establishing rapport instantly with those who desire

their services, and give the suggestion that they will be able to

do this; that the instant they meet a person they will receive an

impress of that one, and the impress immediately communicate

itself to the consciousness.

During the development it would be well if the operator would,

in cases I am now describing, call in a number of other persons

in order to see that they are able to do this, for the exercise during

the development being only with the operator, would not give the

psychic sufficient variety of personalities to practice the rapport

upon.

The natural adaptation, owing to peculiarities of the psychic's

tendencies, may fit her for one line of reading better than another.

I have found some who were especially adept in diagnosing dis

ease, others as character readers, others who were excellent at

following the course of one's life in the past, and again others

who would seldom go into the past at all, but would describe the

experiences that were in the future.

This foretelling of journeys and business transactions, involv

ing descriptions of persons, their peculiarities, the result of contact

with them, many times giving peculiarities of personal exterior,

not simply as to the type, but mannerisms and peculiarities of

dress, and yet the one who was receiving this information through

the psychic had no objective knowledge of any of the persons, and

had not conceived of the idea of the journey or the transaction in

any way, cannot be accounted for on the basis of the object of

the reading having received the impress concerning those things

through telepathic messages from those persons that he might

meet some months hence.

It is inherent in the soul to know its experiences in advance,

at least many months. These things have come to me personally,

too often to be coincidences.

A careful observation of the data, with no purpose to prove the

proposition, but to know the truth of it, has characterized my daily

effort. My experience is worth more than it is to anyone else, and

since it can be every man's, I do not intend, at present, to push

the argument or present the data in the detail that the subject

might warrant. I will give you the plan by which you can as well

demonstrate it for yourself as to accept my experiences as settling

the question.

As stated before, I have had some psychics whose strong point

was to go into the future. Literally and briefly, this proposition

that the soul knows its future. I mean by future that which shall

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occur to the individual while in the present environment. I have

no occasion to take up the question as to his knowledge or his

condition in the next.

Now I am not pretending to state that he knows, from the

instant of his birth, his whole life, or that he will know at ten

the history he will make up to sixty. I have not demonstrated

how long a time, so that I can fix it definitely, but in personal

experience, things have been foretold which I had no possibility

of accounting for on the basis of accident or coincidence, more

than a year ahead.

Many minds would be satisfied that the principles were perfect

if the sub-conscious foretold one day or thirty days in advance.

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^YOW, in taking up the question of psychic phenomena, let no Some Psychic

^j I one do me the injustice to say that I would approve of all Phenomena

the methods of fortune-telling, or that I am endorsing any

man or woman, or his or her method. I simply want to consider

the phenomena that are so common and create consternation in

many instances, and whatever the form, and almost whoever the

person, there has been interest awakened and inexplainable ex

periences.

One person will take a crystal, and, gazing upon it for a while,

speak truths concerning the experiences in the past life of some

one with whom she is in rapport, and usually who is present, and

in her revelations will go into the future and will make certain

statements. There will be a certain percentage, possibly a small

percentage only, that will be true.

Another may take the coffee or tea grounds and give the same

sort of data, with the same percentage of truth.

Another will gaze into the fire. They have been doing this

ever since the experience of Moses and the burning bush, and

probably long before, but the data is of the same class and char

acter as that obtained by the other means mentioned.

The Indian will take his hands full of animal tusks, bird claws

and beaks and pebbles, and throw them upon the ground, and he

gives you much of your past, your present, and his foretelling

is often quite accurate.

The Egyptian may use shells or barks, or the talisman, or

he may depend upon astrology and its relationship to your date

of birth. Anyway, very often he will give you an excellent char

acter reading and history of important events and changes in

your life, and the most prominent and impressive points of your

future.

Another will take the ordinary playing cards, with each card

representing a word or term, that is each card stands for some

thing, and in its combination with others will complete sentences,

and the one who is receiving the reading mixes the cards, and

the reader with his or her acquaintance with the alphabetical mean

ing of the cards, will give the same kind of information that any

and all of these others have given.

The palmist, with the best education as such, while giving

peculiar facts, possibly as to the tendencies to disease, and finding,

as he thinks, in the palm, the tendencies that should be, or would

be, followed or overcome, yet with his phraseology and the allow

ance made for some peculiarities, he invariably goes into the past,

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present and future to about the same degree that the average of

the others do by their different methods.

The spirit medium will give practically the same, if she is a

good psychic, and then the last that I shall refer to is the psychic

who, with no other pretensions, and without devices of any kind,

or even a belief in any other thing than her own mind and soul,

will give the same, substantially, that the others do, but with more

accuracy and with larger percentage of success. In her foretell

ing, nine-tenths, at least, may be correct, and possibly the other

tenth, representing the error, is due to her, because of her objec

tive mind, endeavoring to interpret the meaning of the impres

sions that she gets.

With about a dozen different methods, nearly every one very

unlike the others, yet by them all obtaining about the same sort

of phenomena, would convince one that there is a common source

of the knowledge somewhere. It certainly is not in the fire, the

coffee grounds, the pebbles and claws, the stars, nor the lines

of the hand, nor the cards, but that all of these, and any of them,

are the means of getting the sub-conscious knowledge.

In all of these instances, there has been a person whom we

call a. medium giving the information. If there is no psychic

power in the person who attempts to give information through any

of the above means there is no data obtained, either as to the past,

present or future, that is correct, except by one method and that

is the cards.

If a reader, or one who claims to be able to read, has a meaning

ascribed to each card, and to a combination of cards, there will be

data of the same character obtained, but not as perfect or as exten

sive as the psychic will give.

I have had under my observation several psychics who had this

alphabetical knowledge of cards, and where one who was not a

psychic, for illustration, would read that a man of certain descrip

tion was going to pay money for medicine and doctor's services,

which the literal meaning of the cards would give, a person who

was also psychical, in looking at that picture card, gave the disease

and the amount of money that he would pay, and in various

details, describe the person.

To illustrate the meaning of this latter, a lady who was being

developed as a psychic, in looking at the cards which I had

mixed and cut as she directed, read out of them that "a light

man with a peculiar color of light hair, with red face, above the

average in height, robust, will wear a light overcoat when he

comes, has some peculiar malady that has nonplussed him and all

of his physicians, twenty-eight years of age, will come a short

journey, crossing water, and will, after consultation, desire treat

ment, but is not financially situated at present to take it."

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It was six days after this date that the young man came, ful

filling every detail exactly, even to the peculiarity of his disorder,

which had caused confusion wherever he had been.

Where did she get the information? Under the old teach

ings she would have gone to East St. Louis and seen the man and

found all of these facts.

The man informed me that he had learned of me two weeks

before he was able to come, although determined from the first

that he would do so as soon as he could. He had seen my picture,

and had heard read some extracts from my lectures, which caused

him to determine on his visit.

I had been the object of his thought. I see no reason to

suppose that this lady had peculiar powers of receiving infor

mation from the soul of one who had no reason to come in touch

with her, whereas it is a straight and simple process, if soul read

ing be true at all, for me to have received the communication,

being the object of his desire, and she, being in full rapport with

me, to have obtained the full information. Besides, meeting him

was to be an experience of mine, so I had the knowledge sub

consciously.

Now a single individual can take the cards and fix upon any

alphabetical meaning he pleases, and mixing the cards and cutting

them according to any form he may want to adopt, will obtain

for himself the same data that is given by another person who

might be able to give only the literal, alphabetical meaning of the

cards, which brings it down to this fact : That the cards come in

as a medium by which the person may become conscious of what

the sub-conscious holds. In mixing the cards and cutting them,

the person involuntarily mixes and cuts in such a way as to give

the true story.

It is not probable that in a scientific book, where a man had,

as I have, given eleven years to constant attention of the action

of the soul that he would give any credence to any method of

obtaining the data that the soul contains, without an abundance

of evidence to justify it. That is the situation with reference to

the cards.

I know all that one would say from the standpoint of his

reason when he first hears a proposition and cannot see how there

can be any merit therein, but those lifeless cards become as a

written epistle containing history and prophecy. I have watched

the phenomena carefully for three years, and for the past year

have kept in writing accurate data concerning the card experi

ments and a very large percentage of all which would be stated

occurred, and the meaning of the cards would be realized.

To my mind, with the knowledge that I have that all the

forces and the functions of the body are controlled by the soul,

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and that the soul knows all, it is easy to regard the cards as simply

the medium of communication between the subconscious, which

knows all, and the conscious mind which is bringing up that

knowledge. Now this is a matter of such simple demonstration,

and yet leads to such marvelous results to the man or woman who

is getting truth concerning the laws of the soul, that I would

advise one to satisfy himself concerning the experiment if he

wants to regard it as such, before he goes off in his superior way

and says there could be nothing in it. You do not have to use

the playing cards, but take the ordinary visiting cards and make

up your own alphabet, if you prefer, writing on any card any

meaning that you please.

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• ■ || N the closing of the previous chapter, and in many other

fl portions of the book, reference is made to the soul being

*^ the power that presides over the bodily functions and de

sires; but we want now to give particular attention to its power

over the substances of the body, and its forces.

Our attention, as chemists, has been more attracted by the

pathological changes in the secretions of the body through our

emotional states. Therefore, there is not as much general data

to be had demonstrating the wholesome effect of the good emo

tions. On the other side of the column we have such experiences

as anger, fear, jealousy, and all dark passions changing the alka

line secretions to acid and the acid to alkaline. These tests have

been made particularly with the perspiration and the digestive

secretions. Then there is that common experience in which the

above emotions produced such changes in the mother's milk as

to poison the child at her breast.

Anyone giving a second thought to a process by which stirring

up the emotional nature would produce poisonous conditions in

milk, would agree that there must have been a change in the cells

comprising the milk. Then there is a power in the mind that pre

sides over the cells in the body.

Now if a few minutes' spasm of passion can produce such

profound changes in the chemistry of the body, what must be

expected if there is constant morbidness, the soul always in gloom

and unfavorable expectancy?

These sudden and temporary emotional states directly and im

mediately make the changes indicated, and the chemical distri

bution and its natural offices being thwarted, blood, and therefore

nutrition, and hence every tissue of the body, undergoes depre

ciation from the standard of perfect health before reaction can

come.

It is inherent in the vital force to counteract the disorder and

establish peace and harmony in the systems, but how often, before

such an equilibrium is restored, is one given to beholding some

thing, or listening to something, or through some of the other

faculties, causing the objective mind to pass on to the soul some

conclusion of irritation or unwholesome emotion, and so one

wave after another, in the irritable, or jealous or fearing person

follows in such close relationship as to make it impossible ever

to establish the right conditions in the body.

Then it becomes true that chemical changes are followed by •tissue changes in which the elements of the cells become incom-

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plete, wrong compounds are present in the various tissues, and

a depleted system, nervous exhaustion, inanition, mal-nutrition,

anemia, and a generally lowered standard throughout the whole

organism, and a proportionate decrease of power of resistance,

all of which are conducive to the appearance of disease, which will

most profoundly affect that portion of the system that is in the

lowest degree of resistance.

Tuberculosis is typical of all the wasting diseases, any one

of which may have had its origin in the lack of self-control, in

giving way to anger, fear or jealousy, or any other evil passion,

and these fatal issues had their beginning in a change of the

chemistry of the secretions of the body because of an unwhole

some emotion, and that which might have been very fleeting as a

cause is eternal in its effect.

Getting a faint glimpse of some such idea as this caused the

old metaphysicians to classify the various diseases that followed

upon, or found their correspondence to mental states, stating, for

instance, that impatience or covetousness would produce bad

breath; doubt, fear and obstinacy, asthma; hot temper and jeal

ousy boils ; criticism, Brights' disease ; suppressed passion, cancer ;

and that diabetes was produced by foolishness, earache by dis

obedience, eczema by censure; nausea by thought of separation;

pneumonia by disappointment in love or in business ; rheumatism

by fretting, anger or stubbornness.

The founders of these interpretations were grasping after

truth, and they did find a thread running through it all, and while

these various mental states do not produce with regularity any

certain diseases, the falling of the whole organism into wrong

chemistry, following upon evil mentality, will make expression

upon that portion of the system which is in the lowest stage of

resistance.

Thus far we have been dealing with outbursts of wrong mental

exercise, constituting, as stated, temporary cause and endless

effects, but there is even a more disastrous mentality that we must

consider. I refer to morbidness, a constant depressed mental

state, or where one takes hold of an all-consuming thought, as,

for illustration, that which fairly becomes a mania. Now, a man

does become, from his head to his feet, an expression of that state

in which his soul lives. His countenance, betokens his innermost

thought, and he could not conceal it if he would. His only hope

is to paint out that picture, and put a true one in its place. Then

there will be regeneration in his body, following upon the regen

eration of his soul, and he becomes a living witness of the true

and noble thoughts in him.

Let not even the casual reader depreciate this profound truth,

that the thought held in the soul is lived, and being lived, it will

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change the contour and composition of that physical organism

in which he lives.

If we can believe anything in history, we must believe that

which is recorded of the Stigmatists, for it is as authentic as any

matters that have been given us from that period. The nuns

desired to enter into all the feelings that they believed Jesus

had experienced. They wanted what they would consider miracu

lous evidence that they had entered into the fullest experiences of

these feelings, and they fixed the character of that miracle to be

that upon each hand and foot, and upon the side of the body

there should come scars corresponding to the broken flesh in

their Savior's body. They entered into the fullest belief that that

realization would come. They meditated upon it day and night,

and entered into the religious emotions, living under that mental

state constantly, kept renewing in their souls that which they

wanted to ultimately be expressed in their bodies by looking upon

the picture of Christ on the cross, thus fulfilling every condition of

pouring into the soul by suggestion, when the objective faculties

were in abeyance and they were under their religious ecstacy, in

which they scarcely stopped at a petition, or prayer, that the

changes would come, but their faith was so perfect that it

amounted to a command that those scars appear. They did not go

into the silence with a spasm of emotion and affirm that the scars

were already there, but they did take the thought earnestly and

profoundly into their souls. They not only held the thought,

but they lived the life, they lived the thought. It was not a fit of

concentration, but it was entire consecration in which there were

no lapses of devotion to the suggestion.

They held the picture in their souls of what would be the

condition when full realization of those scars was attained, and

those changes in the various substances of the body, in all the

tissues involved in the materialization of that picture, were un

doubtedly confirmed. Man becomes that which he believes in

his soul he will become. In all the histories of all the psycholo

gists, no person who is not up to his best standard of health can

find a better formula than that given in the history of the Stig

matists, by which he may attain to his standard of perfection,

physically, mentally and spiritually.

The perfection of faith is essential, and the objective mind

plants doubt instead of faith, because it knows things through the

senses, and wants that sort of a test of everything, and it will not

let the soul prompt through intuition, and so we go on casting

shadows over our souls and defeating the expressions that this

supreme power over the body would want to make. For that

reason auto-suggestion as a healing power is not very certain, as

a rule, for the same reason that it becomes necessary for passivity

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to be entered into, and a second person give the suggestions that

create that subjective expectancy that perfects the body and the

mind and the soul.

Now if a temporary unwholesome emotion, an example of

which we have given in the early part of this chapter, produces

an effect during its flash, and becomes such a factor in one's life,

then it must be true that every spurt of good that flashes as freely

through one's soul, must have a beneficient sequel. Nothing is

absolutely lost, and so every little appeal that touches the soul

and causes a fleeting noble feeling and aspiration, may be the

means by which the spark of good is kept from dying.

Again, just as giving way to an irritation today will make it

easier to yield tomorrow, and so on until constant, chronic irrita

bility is the usual, so will yielding to some tenderness once make

one more susceptible, and as he becomes more susceptible there are

more occasions that appeal, until the life becomes practically filled

with opportunities and observation of them of doing good and per

forming generous acts.

This resolves itself to this : It is not to spend life fighting the

evil in ourselves or the world about us, but to see that all the

ground is occupied by a thrifty, healthy growth that carries love's

fragrance and fills the whole atmosphhere of life with sweetness

and peacefulness. It is not killing the weeds, but the cultivation

of the propitious plants.

This whole subject properly connects itself with our first

proposition that unhappy emotions produce chemical changes that

result in disease and wholesome emotions, glad emotions, love

emotions, stimulate the right chemistry, making for nutrition,

establishing nervous equilibrium, soothing the circulation, and is a

tonic to every portion of the body, because every cell is saturated

through and through with love.

No one who was in a state of health was ever made sick by

yielding to the nobler feelings, and no one who was sick was ever

made worse through the excitement of generous impulses.

Love in all its reaching out is the true therapeutic agent. It

heals the giver and the receiver. Evil, whatever the form of its

expression, is infectious and spreads evil. Love is always a happy

contagion. A few persons being thoroughly inoculated with it

will create^an epidemic.

Possibly this is not clearly practical yet for everyone, as to

just how, when one is tempted by anger, fear, or jealousy, or the

depraved passions, to resist and to master the situation.

Now, I have stated over and over again that the soul is the

supreme power over all the tendencies of every phase of man's

life. That being true, you will need only to know how to get

action upon that supreme intelligence, and cause it to express

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its mastership. In the first place if you have studied the physical

demonstrations, or as in the hypnotic subject, where the various

physical demonstrations, as catalepsy, inhibition of pain, etc., are

shown, then you have conceded that there is that power in the

soul, granting that you have laid the foundation for faith in the

power that will control the tendencies and the desires. You have

been impressed that yielding to these is disastrous, and you have

thought that through will power you would overcome.

That is equivalent to trusting to your objective mind, which

is the seat of the will, with which you are most acquainted, and it

is depending upon that will that has brought disaster to every man

who ever had any occasion to master himself along any certain

line. Instead of exercising the mind to overcome that deep im

pression, an emotion that you know is wrong, yield up that will

and say to your soul, "You have the power. Your office has been

heretofore usurped by mind, which has not that function at all,

of presiding over my emotional states, but now, with my will, I

trust to you to hold in check, to throttle, and presently to blot

out, this evil temper, or this insane jealousy, and you shall be the

master in my life."

It is the same old story of becoming as a little child and letting

that spiritual power that is within the body and is supplied with

that office, but which is the passive power, manifest itself. When

I say that it is a passive power, I mean that, so far as mind is

concerned, it must cease its violent effort and give way to the

soul, which is ever ready to perform its function.

I cannot make this any more plain or practical, except that if

necessary, and there are certainly no objections to doing so, enter

into that relaxation of body and passivity of mind and receive

suggestions from a second party that you will not be mastered

and enslaved by the human tendencies, but that those things that

have aroused you in an unwholesome way you will behold with

calmness and control.

Again I say it is not the domination of the will of the sug-

gestor over that of the one receiving the suggestions, but in

reality, it is bringing one in touch with and under the right laws

that enable that supreme will—that of the soul—to prevail, caus

ing a co-operation of both the objective and subjective wills. This

gives one a moral strength which, in proportion to the solitary

will of the objective is as the physical voluntary power to the

power that is manifested in what we usually call the involuntary

of the physical.

It is almost of common observation to have seen how that

when the involuntary systems are utilized, seeming superhuman

feats are enacted. As catalepsy, in which the body of the subject

is suspended with the body, having no support save at the head

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and heels, which rest upon supports, and six hundred pounds

additional to the subject's weight is placed upon his body. I do

not commend this weight experiment at all, and would not make

it, but I have seen it demonstrated.

Again, in cases of insanity, where the objective functions were

all in abeyance and the involuntary presiding, seven men hardly

equal in physical power, the one individual.

It is needless to multiply these illustrations, for wherever you

see an application of the involuntary (so-called) forces, they seem

superhuman, as compared with the ordinary. This is just as true

in mental or spiritual departments as in the physical, and while

there is an office for the objective mind and all its faculties, the

great factor, although so sadly neglected, is the soul, that power

which, when brought into practical control, makes all moral ten

dencies easily directed.

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'^m*K BSENT treatment is made scientific through an under- Absent

-£\ standing of the laws of thought transference, carrying Treatment

in our minds a complete key to telepathy, including a full

appreciation of ethereal molecular vibrations, and the idea of a

transmitter and a receiver or receivers in attunement therewith,

and the science of absent treatment becomes practical.

I have given several thousand demonstrations in transmitting

a thought across a room, or a distance of ten or twenty feet, and

got an immediate answer, in which the patient or subject, per

formed in exact fulfillment of the mental suggestion that I had

directed toward him.

Having this experience in my early practice, it became a matter

of knowledge, and there was no necessity for me to depend on

faith that my thought would be received by the object of it.

Establishing my knowledge through the demonstrations

where I could see the immediate results, caused me to fulfill the

requirements to transmit any distance, through which I have been

fully assured that distance makes no difference.

No reader need hesitate to accept this understanding the vibra

tion hypothesis, and so he is equipped to proceed to formulate his

thought, send it out without any accompanying doubt, which

would be a counter vibration.

If there is rapport, between two persons, there is that perfect

communication from soul to soul that is capable of affecting their

lives as much as audible interchange of ideas through conversa

tion would do.

Faith in this method, that is, soul belief in the method on

the part of operator and patient, is the first essential to success

in mental therapeutics. The operator needs to have objective and

subjective consciousness of the effort that he is making. His

patient may, or may not, have objective knowledge of treatment

being given him, and yet receive the healing suggestion, for his

soul knows what is being done for him. Should he objectively

know that a certain person, or persons had taken him under treat

ment, and he, with that mind, determine that there was no effi

cacy in it, that auto-suggestion would carry its full weight to

the soul and shut off the possible benefits that might have resulted

had the treatment been without his objective knowledge or with

his objective co-operation.

The operator should have a certain period daily, during which

times he could and would give attention objectively to the formula

tion of the suggestions that he would have his patient receive.

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These suggestions would be the same as he would give if his

patient were in hearing of his voice. Formulating these sentences

in the mind and then entering into some degree of passivity,

having placed over his soul the suggestion to convey these impres

sions to his patient, is excellent practice.

Confusion has arisen through ignorance of the fact that

thought transference is not from mind to mind. Under the

original ideas it was supposed that operator and patient must

necessarily have the same hour, one to observe transmission and

the other to be waiting, relaxed and passive, to receive the com

munication.

We know now that the messages are received involuntarily

and unconsciously, and are registered there by the transmitter,

regardless of the activity of the patient at that particular moment.

A fixed hour is not essential to be observed.

It is a good measure, however, for the patient to have a period

each day, in which he will likewise become passive and relaxed

and contemplate the suggestions that he knows the operator has

agreed to give thought in transmissions to him.

In the passivity of the operator, in which he has formulated

his suggestions and commanded his soul to send them forth, he

has also given his soul force the suggestion to keep that person

under treatment to unite his soul force with that of the patient,

according to the patient's needs. When we appreciate the fact

that the soul has a world of its own and is being drawn here and

there in its communications, we will appreciate then that we are

benefiting our patients constantly, whether we, at any particular

moment objectively think of them or not. Just because we can

give our souls the suggestion at any moment to carry these

messages forward and the patient be treated through them, and it

therefore becoming unnecessary to have a fixed hour agreed upon,

does not make it any the less reprehensible to make such an agree

ment with a patient to observe a certain date and fail to keep it.

The effect of that is to destroy the powers of the operator, because

of his own dishonesty.

The soul promptings are always for frankness, and no one is

really deceived, except the man's own mind, for, if in rapport

with his patient he has communicated his deceit, and were that

patient to have a psychic reading, the revelation would be made

to him of the infidelity of the operator who had agreed to give

objective and subjective attention at a certain hour and did not do

so, through willful neglect.

The writer has never accepted any fees for absent treatment.

He has kept his dates faithfully. The man who charges should

certainly give the time, and not destroy his own faith by faith

lessness. This is like all other wrong thought, in that it brings

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back in kind whatever goes out from the mind. The compen

satory vibration is absolutely certain.

Then with the understanding that there must be perfect faith

in the treatment on the part of the patient, or he must be uncon

scious of the treatment, and the operator must believe in the

method and consciously and sub-consciously formulate and send

the identical suggestions against the symptoms of his patient that

he would if they were face to face and audible words spoken, the

forms of which are sufficiently taught in chapters in the suggestive

therapeutics part of the book. With ideal conditions, such as

perfect faith on the part of operator and patient, results are in

no sense haphazard. To look at the matter as it now stands, it is

not at all satisfactory, but the lack of faith, which has been based

upon an ignorance of how a suggestion could possibly annihilate

distance may now be overcome, when it is understood that there

is a medium of communication through ethereal molecular vibra

tion that is as practical and as natural as hearing a voice across

a room, and perfect faith may take the place of the lack.

Little dependence can be placed upon the great bulk of statis

tics that have been published by persons who claim such large

successes in absent treating. These persons have made no allow

ance for the fact that in acute diseases, ninety per cent of patients

recover in spite of drugs, thoughts, or anything else, because that

vital force, the soul, is ever endeavoring to sustain physical and

moral integrity, fulfilling its natural office, and there seems to

be a natural course that some diseases will run. As a specialist,

it has been very rare for me to have any occasion to treat acute

diseases, and seldom had access to any chronics first-handed.

Nearly all have been the rounds of various forms of treatment

and pronounced incurable, and that sort of cases are under such

auto-suggestions, beliefs based upon being told by every practi

tioner that they could not be cured, and I must say this is a

very unfavorable condition under which to begin absent treatment,

when the very conditions of successful absent treatment are that

all auto-suggestion must be with perfect faith that the method

will heal. In many instances where patients could not remain with

me sufficiently long to complete the treatment, I have taught some

member of his family how to give the suggestions in the passive

state. This has been far more successful than to begin treatment

and send the patient away to depend upon absent treatment. The

principle, however, is correct, and with the spread of the knowl

edge of psychology, the rising generation will be getting practical

results in a generous degree from absent treatment.

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• m\i T seems that every good that has ever existed has been con-

fl torted and evil, in some way, brought from it. The depart-ment of psychology comprehending thought transferenceis no exception to the rule. Ignorance, as usual, is at the baseof the wrong.

Immediately upon the announcement and the demonstration

that thought was transmitted from one and received by another,

and that often healing was, without doubt, a result of such inter

change, it was promulgated that of course there was nothing to

limit the power, and that if a thought could be a beneficent agent

in the hands of a physician who desired to cure a patient, that it

would be just as great a power, and could be exercised just as

effectually by one with an evil intent.

This has been a very unfortunate teaching, for the average

person lets others do his thinking for him, and if he sees anything

printed, that is satisfactory evidence to him that it is true. This

book is written for those who would like to think. At the same

time, if his experience has been limited, so much so that he could

not answer intelligently why evil at the hands of evil would not

be fruitful under the laws of thought transference, he can have

my experience in that relation in the book. If the student were

acute, he would have gotten from previous chapters, that which

would have confirmed him in the assurance that a man cannot

bring disaster through telepathy into the life of his enemy for the

very reason that their enmity cuts off rapport, and for the second

most potent reason that the soul of man is exercising its func

tions for sustaining an equilibrium, moral, physical, and is not

so open to destructive agencies as to those that are uplifting. We

have shown throughout all the book that rapport itself is based

upon love and sympathy. I have spoken so frequently of the

necessity for the receiver to be in attunement with the transmitter.

A man is in no danger through thought transference, however

powerful a concentrator his opponent might be, but he is in great

danger through his friends, who are in rapport with him and send

him the depressing, the unfavorable thought, and because of their

perfect rapport plant the wrong expectancy in him.

Again I am called upon to repeat the statement that we suffer

most at the hands of our nearest and dearest, through their ignor

ance of the laws governing the psychic forces. The statement

that I made in a lecture some time ago, that the nation probably

was responsible for the death of Senator Hanna, which statement

was published in the newspapers throughout the country, was

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based upon the thousands upon thousands of his friends believing

the unfavorable bulletins, and through their sympathetic rapport,

caused the great preponderance of mental power to be on the

negative side.

When a man's soul is exercising to its fullest limit in its effort

to keep the body tenantable, and receives a single discouraging

suggestion from one powerful and sympathetic suggestor, who

says there is no hope, and believes with all his soul that the

patient will not recover, an obstacle has been put in the way that

so increases physical and mental depression, that the resisting

power is not adequate. If it be true that one or two persons

near and dear, and therefore in close rapport with the patient,

can add that which overburdens the vital force, what must be the

effect upon the power within a man's body when, helpless and

hopeless expectancy is poured into his soul by the thousands, as in

the instance of a public personage ? Had there been no reports of

the senator's illness, or could they have been of a tenor to create

an expectancy of recovery, there is good reasoning and science

to justify the belief that he need not have died. If the senator

had had one-half of the nation at enmity with him, and had they

concentrated with all their powers, day and night, they could not

have affected him in the least through their power, because the

conditions of rapport were not complied with.

However, we must see and take into proper consideration what

the possibilities are through the ignorancce of the patient. The

proposition in exactness is this : That if a man or a patient believe

that his enemies have that power over him, and are exercising

it, then he does come to a fulfillment and realization of the con

dition that corresponds to what he believes they are endeavoring

to and are able to do.

There have been thousands upon thousands of deaths even, to

say nothing of disease and disaster, resulting from that auto

suggestion. Persons have experienced disease, disaster and death

when they believed that a curse had been put upon them, and

that an enemy, or a number of persons were exercising influences

over them.

There is just one means by which the twentieth century can

pass back to reflect the sixteenth, and that certain way to fall

back to that standard is to let it become a general belief that

a person can be evilly influenced by his enemies. It is not a

surprise that it is a man's own belief, and the expectancy of his

own soul, that either blesses or curses him, for that is the law

of the soul that that which it believes, it will bring into expres

sion.

In the centuries, including the fifteenth and part of the seven

teenth, there were hundreds of thousands of persons burned

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at the stake as witches. These witches, it was claimed, were in

league with the devil. They were said to hold intimate relation

ships as his agents, and would have their midnight revels with

him. Infants were snatched from their mother's arms and liter

ally torn to pieces because they were charged to be the agents

of the evil one that was causing disease and death in that vicinity.

Don't stop, but read on past the statement that I am about to

make, that hundreds of people were ill and even died because of

these so-called witches.

It does not take much intelligence to know that it was not

any actual power of the witches that caused any discomfiture, but

it was the belief, fear upon the part of the one who ascribed to the

witches that power over him.

There are some people that pass for having some intelligence,

and yet they are accepting a teaching as diabolical and untrue

as the old ideas of witches, and that is when they believe and

teach that a man's enemies can will him into misfortune. Let the

belief become general that the telepathic power is such as to

equip one for bringing misfortune into another's life, and upon

every hand, we will find that whenever one is sick, is disappointed

commercially, or meets with an accident, he will be ready to

accuse some one that he thinks has had occasion to be displeased

with him, and who might will him just such experiences.

A man might plow through an icy slush of melting snow with

wet feet all day, and at night go home and have a chill, followed

by high temperature, subsequently developing a typical case of

pneumonia, and ascribe it all to an evil thought of some enemy.

This is just how rank some people have become.

No one would likely suppose that in this book of exact science

there is very much to concur with what has been termed Christian

Science, but I do care enough for truth to prefer a defense of

that cult when it has been misrepresented and is resting under

a false and impossible charge. I might say that, as psychologists,

we owe a great deal of the advancement of our interests to the

demonstrations made by the Christian Scientists in which they

have shown so conclusively that soul does preside over the body.

They have cured by indirect suggestion, and it was an after

thought to clothe the idea in religious garments.

While the manuscripts of this book are being prepared, there is

a debate going on throughout various parts of the country, and

through the journals, as to whether or not Mark Twain's recent

illness was due to the mental influence that has been turned upon

him systematically and intentionally by the Christian Science

church, which he has mercilessly ridiculed. There are bodies of

so-called religion that have split off from Eddyism that have been

very earnest in their announcement that the Christian Scientists

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agreed among themselves to, through the soul power, bring mis

fortune in the form of disease and other disappointment, to the

prominent leaders of these splits. This is the means by which an

impression has been spread abroad that telepathic communication

through the evilly disposed, directed upon one whom he might

want to bring evil to, gets just as great a harvest of results as a

beneficent operator does. In a certain line he does get a prolific

harvest, but it is always to himself. It is on the same old principle

that the man that digs the pit will fall therein. It is a law of

the soul that whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap, that

is, the law of cause and effect, and the real science of it is this,

the suggestion that you give another, spoken or in thought is

received by your own soul, and it unconsciously and involuntarily,

so far as your mind is concerned, brings your mind and body

into those conditions and experiences that you suggest to another.

A very literal demonstration of this principle was given me

through a pupil of mine, who, in practicing treatment, had occa

sion to assist a man out of the habit of alcoholism. He was aim

ing to follow the formula that I had given him, in which he said

to the man in the passive state :

"Liquor, in any form, is nasty, filthy, nauseating stuff, and

will be very repulsive to you, making you sick at your stomach

even at sight of it and the odor of it will be intolerable to you.

You will not want liquor, and you will not suffer any from giving

it up." The operator was not an excessive drinker, but used it

temperately, and he assures me that upon an effort to take his

usual toddy he became so sick at his stomach that he had to give

it up and could not drink it.

The soul acts upon the principle that what you suggest to

another must be the proper thing for yourself, or you would not

give it to one of whom you are a part, and of course the prin

ciples of psychology, as here set forth, teach the common brother

hood of man.

We will close this chapter with the final statement that there

is no possibility of one with an evil intent bringing any disaster

into the life of the object of his evil desire, except through the

auto-suggestion of the person to whom he has directed his aim,

in the form of the belief that his enemy has that power over him.

Every agent, or any agent in the world, whether it be a chip,

a pill, a potato, a rabbit's foot, a powder, a saint's bone, a man's

big toe or his hand, a witch, a hypnotist, an enemy or a devil, has

that power over one that that one ascribes to the agent. Then it

is the belief in an evil or a beneficent power that determines

which it shall be.

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' "If T cannot make a particle of difference to us, so far as in- Scientific

1| spiration is concerned, whether Moses was mistaken when Inspiration

he thought that a force outside of himself told him what

to do and how to act. It does not concern us at all whether Isaiah,

or Solomon, or David were inspired by something outside them

selves, as far as practical psychology is concerned. I care not

how you may interpret the phenomena of inspiration as expressed

through these men, nor does it make any difference to us whether

John on the Isle of Patmos, when he wrote the book of Revela

tions, was really inspired in the sense of a spirit outside his breath

ing through him ; it is no matter of ours so far as practical demon

stration is concerned. In all ages inspiration has been in evidence,

and now science takes up the matter and says: "We will make

inspiration or spirit breathing a thing of actual knowledge, of

voluntary intention," and that is the sort of inspiration that we are

prepared to deal with. The word means, of course, and we are

not going to try to change its meaning, spirit breathing, or spirit

making itself known or felt in some way or other.

It does not behoove me in my work to try to take into con

sideration all the divisions of mind that are possible or that I

am familiar with. In dealing with the question of the body, I

speak of the physical organization which everybody is acquainted

with. I do not mean to have to speak in every instance of its

composition and its divisions into cells, molecules and atoms. It

is understood that this body is capable of many subdivisions.

That is when we are dealing purely with the physical. It is just

the same way with the mind. The Hindoo psychologist finds

seven very nice divisions, and many think that they find or have

recognized something beyond what I have mentioned. They can't,

for I use a word that includes all the departments of the mind.

However, the matter of terms matters little. There need be but

two divisions of mental expression through the human being;

those two forms I have mentioned so often, that you know them,

objective and subjective. In us there is the objective that every

body knows about, and there is the subjective with which we are

getting acquainted. In that sub-conscious department or the soul

there is inherent knowledge. There are means of acquiring

knowledge there which was never obtained through the senses in

any way, and being there, the question is, how are we going to

get it out ? Bringing out of the soul its knowledge in any form of

its expression, I may say, is inspiration, because it is the soul

speaking through the physical and mental organism. It is the

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simplest thing in the world that when you surround the word

spirit with mysticism, that it seems like it would be utterly out

of our range to expect to have inspiration, but now I propose

to bring it here and use it here at will.

Look, if you will, for a while at music and some of its inspired

composers. I might take for illustration any other art just as

well, or divide it, but you can find just as practical an illustration

in Haydn and Handel and Beethoven and Mozart and Wagner,

those masters of music, as you could if we went into a larger

realm, and took a great number of masters in the different depart

ments. Every individual I have just mentioned, it is true, worked

at his music, but, taking Handel as the first illustration, you will

recall that his father was opposed to the child becoming a musi

cian—so opposed, in fact, that he put the instruments in the garret.

But the mother and aunt were favorable to the child's desires to

become a musician, and so when the father heard the music from a

distance they said that it was spirits performing. This did not

satisfy him, and upon close investigation he found Handel, the

little child, making the music. And so by persistence on the part

of the child, and deceit on the part of the relatives, for the father

was determined to make a lawyer of him, and was not at all satis

fied with his being a musician, he developed into that genius who

composed the "Messiah" and other masterpieces. Even under

these difficulties, as he proceeded in his musical career, his teach

ers, as also shown in the case of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven,

said when they began to teach him that "he knows music already ;

he can interpret for us and teach us." The life of Handel is

just one continuous testimonial for inspiration. What has his

Messiah, his Saul, his Samson, or his Israel in Egypt—what have

they not done for the world? Those who have heard them ren

dered have a new inspiration from their souls. Do you get

inspiration when you hear something rendered like those master

pieces from the music or the composer? Is it an outside power

that gives something to you and uses your organization to express

itself to the world? In other words, when you get inspiration,

from what source do you get it ? What is the spirit that breathes

through you when you hear the rendering of good music? What

is music? It isn't simply sound with rhythm and dynamic vibra

tions—it is the expression of thought in that particular musical

form inspiring me along the line in which my soul is working.

The object is not to make music upon instruments, but to express

thought in other form, and so there is not any one, I care not

who he is or where he is, that can afford to separate himself

from music, because it is one of the universal methods of stimu

lating the soul to activity. It will stir me as nothing else will,

although I am pleased with a good painting.

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Haydn was on the same order as Handel in his marvelous

production of oratorios. The Seasons will always be a master

piece. And yet, those children applied themselves you say. Yes,

but supposing they did apply themselves; haven't many children

applied themselves, or haven't you tried to apply them, without

the production even of harmony, let alone the actual composition,

while here was Haydn particularly who was composing before he

was seven. When the father and sister, the sister a few years

older, were playing, here was this boy sitting there with sticks

to represent the violin, but he was keeping perfect time, was im

proving upon the time. As I have said before, if there is a strong

spiritual gift within you, it is striving for expression from infancy

almost on. Most of us that had its strivings silenced in our earli

est childhood, never have had an opportunity to persist and culti

vate it, but, as I say, it is in the soul. That is where the music is.

Mozart—to give his history would practically be to repeat so

far as inspiration, father, and infantile development were con

cerned, for he was a child of a drunken father. His persistence

was more commendable, possibly, for he worked under greater

difficulties, but, anyway, all of these represent the same principle

that within them there was something striving for expression, for

it must be remembered that these composers did their marvelous

work in their early life.

I am coming presently to the practical features, the applica

tion for personal and present use. We can say these beautiful

things and they have been said thousands of times, concerning

these prodigies in music, who were called geniuses (and it is

always true that wherever a man, an individual, has had an oppor

tunity to put his mind and body in that relationship to soul, that

his soul can make free use of the body and mind, he appears as a

genius), but there is not an individual but what is possessed of

the same capacity, not along the line of music, perhaps, don't mis

understand me, but there is not an individual, I say, but what,

if he would bring his body and his mind into the proper relation

ship to the soul that that department can use those organs for free

expression, but will pass for a genius along the lines that he is

prompted to follow. There is something that does prevail, or at a

time has wanted to prevail, above any other quality or attribute

of the soul, and if you have forgotten it or neglected it, bear this

in mind that I tell you that there is just as much a Handel and a

Haydn and a Mozart in existence today, and you can bring that

knowledge or talent out of your souls through a much shorter

course than beginning at the age of three and working away at

instruments for the expression of music for a score of years. I

am talking about what science has done in the way of psychology ;

I am getting at the powers of the soul ; I am dealing with truths

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about it. You would not be at all surprised if I told you that you

can make just as good a ruby with chemicals, just because they

have found out what high temperature can do, as the natural ones

taken from the earth, so that in foreign countries they will not

make a loan on rubies, for they can't tell whether they are genu

ine from the mines or are chemically produced. The reason that

you have a continuous rail, if you have it in your city, is because

of the discovery that through high temperature you can make the

rail practically continuous as if it were just one rail, that they can

unite them together, so securely that it is just like one long rail.

Those things don't surprise you, and yet go back to the time of

these musicians that I am speaking of, and talk about such

things as that, and what would they think? It is only because

you have become familiar with the physical advancements I am

talking about that you have ceased to marvel. I am talking about

that which is no more marvelous than the other when I tell you

that we can with intent and purpose make a plan to bring out of

the soul its capacity in the line that you may incline toward to

as great an extent as these musicians that have been called

geniuses or prodigies, and that you can take the most stupid

person, if there is such a thing as stupid (objectively some of us

don't get in very good touch with the world, don't interpret its

lessons correctly; there are different powers of interpretation,

and so we judge a man to be smart or dull according to his devel

opment in that direction, but the real truth is that there is no such

thing as a really stupid person), or the one who is regarded as

such, and apply the principles I am talking about, find the line

of his inclination and apply the formula that I am going to give

you and make him a genius in that direction. Some of our so-

called fools have been geniuses, because their relations with the

objective world were not perfect, and they did not pretend to

make them perfect or pay any attention to the world, and there

fore the soul took the body and used it freely, and so fools have

been known sometimes as geniuses. We propose to take people

and develop them spiritually without necessarily robbing them of

their senses. When it comes to Beethoven, who is, I suppose,

always going to stand as a greatest marvel in musical inspiration,

you will remember his history where his father determined to

make a Mozart of him. His grandfather was a musician; his

father was a man given to strong drink, but he knew what a furore

had been created by Mozart and he said: "My son, you have to

be a Mozart." And so, at all times of the night this child was

dragged out of bed and compelled to practice music. After

awhile he had the fondness for it, but then what are we to con

clude concerning the inspiration of this child that had to have

it beaten into him. Now, all the beatings that we have ever heard

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of have never made any musicians. There must have been that

inclination within the soul of this child to be a musician or rough

treatment, such as dragging him out of bed and compelling him

to play would never have made what we know of Beethoven.

His immortal Nine Symphonies—who can describe them ; who is

there that can describe his feelings at the rendition of Beethoven's

compositions ? And yet, master as he was, practically in his youth

he produced these (and if you will notice, you will find that nearly

all the masterpieces were put out in a marvelously short time.

The Messiah, of Handel, composed in twenty-three days ! When

the soul gets to work it does not count time the way we do. The

difficulty with us is to let the soul express the way it should. But

Beethoven—the marvelous about him is yet to come. If music

had depended upon a cultivated, musical ear, either in its rendition

or composition, Beethoven would have lost most of his reputation

for the marvelous, for he never would have produced that at

which we must be compelled to marvel, for he lost his hearing

entirely after a very short time, and had no sense of harmony

or discord from a physical standpoint, and yet his playing was so

astonishing, so attractive, so powerful, that the musicians slyly

gathered around that they might hear, and they were carried away

as we possibly are not capable of being carried away ; they could

appreciate the music that Beethoven in his supposed privacy

poured forth. Beethoven was very irritable and would not allow

them to be present during his playing, and so sometimes through

bribing the landlady musicians got into the adjoining room and

heard him play. Sometimes he would, in the midst of playing

grandly with both hands, not hearing a sound, stop with his right

hand and go on with the other, and those who were out in the

adjoining rooms hearing that bang, that thunder that was the re

sult of Beethoven dropping his idle hand, would know that not

sensing the accord, he did not even note the discord. Beethoven

was really hearing the music in his soul, not that of the piano.

The marvelous thing, is this that we can do without our senses

and produce our best work. When we know how it is that blind

people can move about the way they do and know so much, we

will find that it is through the psychic sense of seeing. I know

that in my early boyhood there was a blind man to whom they

would take a horse that they were contemplating buying, and

ask him to point out the blemishes. He would describe the color

of the horse and tell them any defects, and I am convinced that

we do not need so much the development of our objective senses

as we might, provided we give an opportunity to the subjective

department to rule the senses; that all sense of the objective sort

that we have is only a suggestion, for it is imperfect. Think just

for a moment what I mean. I regard the objective senses in their

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imperfectness as only indications of what the subjective holds, and

that it is only when the soul, or the sub-conscious department takes

hold and controls the body and the mind that the results obtained

are perfect. When the soul takes charge of the senses and uses

them, then they are capable of their most perfect reception. That

is what it means to let the soul have control, or getting into

rapport with the soul.

Well, I have said enough in the illustrations to show to you

that inspiration's source is in the individual ; that all the practices

of these prodigies in music was only to bring out the soul in

them, and it was not in the power of the trained musicians to

teach them, or put anything into their souls or their minds or

their execution, more than to guide the execution, and if the

music was not in the teachers, and if it was not the result of the

generating of music through the teachers, then the source of the

inspiration of the music must have been in those individuals'

souls. They were not unlike us. Analyze them as you please,

mentally and physically, and they could not be constituted different

from the rest of us, and whatever attributes they possessed or

whatever principles governed them, govern us. Just as long as we

have an idea that inspiration is drawn from some outside force,

and I admit that we have some excuse for the idea, we will not

look for it within ourselves, for whenever you determine that any

force is native outside of yourself the results are uncertain. You

may get into rapport with a force outside of yourself and express

knowledge that I possess through telepathy, there is a sense in

which that is true, but it could not be controlled, it could not be

scientific, for you might get some idea today and give expression

to the knowledge gained in that way, and tomorrow you might

be unable to get anything at all. Therefore, I say that just as long

as you believe that the source of inspiration is outside of yourself,

the results will be exceedingly whimsical. In your soul there is

the power, the source. It is within yourself and whenever you

do practice, if it is music, you are endeavoring to bring into outer

expression that which is within yourself. The long tedium of

practice, in other words, the conscious effort will bring you a

result, a measure of success, but the objective method has never

been, the purely objective method, successful in making anybody

even superior, let alone a great genius. He had to ultimately

adopt some formula by which his objective was put in abeyance.

When Handel wrote the "Messiah" he said that "God and Angels

in Heaven" were before him. He saw those. I would not have

you understand that I mean that he saw them in reality ; he used

the highest terms that he could to indicate to you that what he

saw and felt at that time was of the highest possible; that his

ideals were high, and so he expressed them in the highest terms

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of which he could conceive—"God and Angels in Heaven." So

here was Handel, who worked to a great ideal, was entirely ab

sorbed as Beethoven, in which he was doing. So I am right in

saying that all of these marvels in their work of producing their

masterpieces, got into the influence by which they lost all sense

objectively, and that their mental and physical departments were

used by the subjective or soul in expressing that which was within.

That is uniformly true. I have said in many ways that the richest

lesson of our lives is to learn to bring the subjective into perfect

mastership, or to get the mind and body to become perfect instru

ments of the subjective department. I have said in various ways

for various purposes of illustration, that if the individual can get

his mind and body into that relationship to the soul where the

subjective or sub-conscious department of the mind can have

perfect control, he is in a proper condition to receive inspiration.

That is why I said that the largest lesson of life is to learn to

get the mind and body into perfect obedience to the soul. All the

practice that our stenographer went through in getting so that

she could write on the machine was for the purpose of ultimately

being able to say: "Well, my sub-conscious mind has perfect

mastery over my body," and so she will sit at the machine and

look over to one side and never see the keys at all and never make

a mistake unless she looks at the keys. She hears it possibly, but

she does not have to think about what her fingers are doing. But

she went through months of practice, you say. What was she

doing? Why, she was training her body, so that unconsciously

and involuntarily she could strike the right keys on the machine,

under the direction of her soul. You who are musicians, what are

you doing? Could you ever learn to play if you had been watch

ing where you strike ? Why no. The psychology of it all is that

ultimately through your practice objectively, you give your sub

jective department, or soul, the mastery, and then you can play.

And if an audience makes you conscious of yourself, you get to

thinking about your fingers, and then you strike the wrong keys.

Then it is true that the soul is the supreme power.

All of these principles fall under the subject of inspiration,

because it is spirit control, that is, your soul controlling the body

and the objective mind—using them, and you simply went

through all this practice to get to that point where that would be

the condition. Now, under the advanced knowledge that we

have under the science of psychology, the work is shortened so

that the individual, instead of spending quite so many hours in

his practice, will use part of that time in a mental converse with

his soul. I am talking now with reference, not to the composer,

but with regard to the rendition of music. Your conversation

would be that you believe now that within yourself there is the

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power that is the source of your conscious playing, and so you

put your body into a relaxed state and your mind passive, under

the suggestion that when you desire to play again, that the soul

will use the mind and the body through which to express the

music that is within it. Now, if you would use a half hour like

that a day, I think you could put aside safely four or five hours'

work practicing; I am sure that you could. I am sure, further,

that the process of auto-suggestion will bring you to a state of

excellence, but simply knowing it will not bring you anything—

it is what you put into use that counts. If you follow that under

auto-suggestion, you will get the results that I speak of. The

better and rapid way is to become relaxed and passive and receive

suggestions from another that you will have that perfect obedience

objectively to your subjective department. This is all with refer

ence to some mechanical work. Now, then, I have said to-night

that the soul is the source of perfect knowledge. The soul is the

source of perfect knowledge to you, and it has been indicating

to you a thousand times along what lines you are especially gifted.

The knowledge is there and the power is there. We want you to

get your mind and body into relationship to that sub-conscious

department that it can have expression. You have glimpses here

and there of some superior intelligence along that line, but when

you tried to use it, it was gone. It is still there, but the best way

in the world is to follow the formulas that I have given you to

bring it out where you can recall it at will. The long process

ultimately gives but a measure of efficiency, whereas by stimu

lating the soul to its mastership, we obtain results astonishing in

their perfectness. If you will but fill its requirements, you can

bring out inspiration, bring out of your soul its knowledge, its

perfect knowledge along those lines which you aspire to have

perfected.

Soul has the perfect knowledge and perfect memory, and when

it gives up out of its memory, isn't that inspiration? So I have

told you to get into unison with the soul in all its departments,

through passivity and suggestion, stimulating it into greater

activity and expression. Perfection should be your ideal, whether

it is music, art, painting, or whatever your tendency may be, and

whatever that tendency is it should be cultivated, not exactly cul

tivating the tendency, but cultivating the mind and body, so that

the soul can use them freely.

Now, I don't want you to think that I would require that you

be placed in the passive state and receive suggestions from a cer

tain individual. I have told you the general rule, and it is just as

applicable in one case as another, for if you realize the power

within yourself, and address yourself as you have been addressing

an outside power, you will obtain the desired results. It is true

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that this scientific study exalts men, but this is good and wise.

Convince a man that he is a worm of the dust, a vile thing, and he

demonstrates that he is; show him his Deific side, and he will

manifest as a veritable God. Man, being the highest individual

expression of spirit, whatever his source, it is honored by his

grand expression, and shares in the glory with him. That source

would not be jealous or injured or suffer loss however sublime

the heights attained by man. I have no desire at all to deal with

theology or man's source, but I care not what that source may be,

if the man has glorified himself, he has glorified that source.

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" Build thee more stately mansions, oh, my soul

Leave thy low vaulted past I

Let each new temple nobler than the last.

Lift thee to heaven with a dome more vast,

Till thou at last art free.

Leaving thine outgrown shell

By life's unresting sea." —Holmts.

\. ^% ITH the constant demand upon my time by patients and The Chemistry

\X/ the increasing requirements from the platform, I have and Psychology

^^ no time for studying statistics, but I am informed that of Love

the number is ever increasing of men and women who desire to

give marriage an absent treatment.

I am thoroughly convinced that it is high time, in America at

least, that we adopt love as a principle rather than love as a

passion, and love in its purity rather than its policy. If it be true

that the hosts who are desiring to become unmarried are enlarg

ing, then it is quite apparent that neither law nor religion can

solve the problem of getting the marriage question settled. The

psychologist does not believe that enactment of laws ever makes

reforms in any line; nothing less than the knowledge that will

change the inclination, desires and practices, will ever correct

anything. He also believes that every force should be brought

to bear upon education. Therefore, I propose to make the com

mon laws of the physical and mental plain. There is a guide

herein for the prevention of mismating and also a formula for

adjusting in each individual instance.

Chemistry is the science that deals with the composition of

matter. Psychology is the science of the soul, so our subject

being the chemistry and psychology of love, it would be the rela

tionship of the composition of the body and the soul acting upon

it through love.

Magnetism will be the first department of our subject that I

want to consider scientifically. When a piece of iron or steel is

placed in a magnetic field of a dynamo, a peculiar polarization

takes place by which one extremity of the metal will attract posi

tive and the other negative, because those ends become negative

and positive. Each molecule of the metal seems to become so

polarized, and the positives all pointing in the same direction

constitute that peculiarity of the magnet. All matter has elec

tricity in some state or stage within it, and for that reason every

body attracts every other body, the positive in one attracting the

negative in the other. These are the usual expressions, but

what really takes place is under the law that everything in the

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universe that is possessed of something that is blessed is making

the effort to impart its beneficent qualities to every receptive and

responsive other member of the universe. Upon this principle,

when a piece of iron is brought into proximity with a magnet,

which, owing to its properties, is at a certain vibratory rate, fulfills

its law of imparting its wave lengths and speed to the unmagnet-

ized iron. Under this process the latter also becomes a magnet.

When two individuals, as a young gentleman and a young

lady, come into proximity to each other, they may find a very

pleasurable thrilling sensation pass over them. They have both

read the novels, that in a very intense way described the sensa

tions of the heroes and heroines of their stories, when the gentle

men had rescued from some form of death, which always involved

the lady's falling into the arms of the young man, and therefore

consider themselves well prepared to define the meaning of those

sensations and to ascribe their source properly.

Each one takes the self-suggestion down into their own souls

that that is love's thrill, and the next is to suggest each to the

other that is the correct interpretation of their feelings. Further

association and limited separation intensifies all of those feelings

that were more or less intense when they first looked into each

other's eyes or clasped hands. The cultivation of the idea and

the excitement of the body proceeds more or less rapidly, some

what according to the temperament, caution, or experience of one

or both of the individuals.

The fate of the unsophisticated is to become entirely enveloped

in the wildest flames of which the body is capable. When this

stage is reached, they are so overwhelmed by their feelings that

they cannot consider the subject of mental or spiritual adapta

tion, agreement of nationality, or planes of their families. They

have decided that they are in love, and that settles every question

for them.

What has actually taken place was that in their first discovery

of pleasure in each other's presence or contact, they electrically

affected each other and in the positive in one attracting the nega

tive in the other, under the laws of the magnet, each seeking to

impart the qualities to the other that he or she had electrically,

produced a very pleasurable sensation, purely magnetic and

chemical, under the laws of physical magnetism and chemical

affinity. The danger of the situation was in their mistaken inter

pretation as to the source of their glad feeling. After once sug

gesting each to himself and to each other that that is love, then

since soul, which is suggestible and controls all the chemistry

and other forces of the body, it would in answer to the suggestion

proceed to make the bodies more intense, creating every molecule

and cell in one body with such a chemical and electrical state

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that would compel answer through the corresponding molecule

and cell in the other. A fiery furnace is a fit comparison for the

state of these two bodies, each demanding the other. Of course

this scientific revelation will take the romance out of the great

majority of the mating experiences, but in its ultimate, will make

love more beautiful than it has ever appeared before, and love

will be sought for, hoped for, aspired to, and more frequently

found and its immortality recognized.

As an actual fact, the cat and some other animals enjoy the

contact and stroke, because of their magnetic discharge, when the

hand approaches. The law by which many bodies undergo elec

trical interchanges imparts pleasure in all of those instances

where there is given to one a supply of the element which it needs

or draws from it the excess, so the danger is not in the magnetic

exchange that might take place between two persons, or among

a number as for that, but is in the interpretation of the sensation

to be characteristic of love; it is the first suggestion, not the

contact.

If a lady and gentleman knew they were attracted to each

other by the most common force, which is present in all matter,

they would hardly come to the conclusion that that was love in

any true sense, capable of uniting the masculine and feminine

spirits. It would occur to them that a union of soul would

scarcely begin in the chemistry of the body. Their logic would

hardly lead them to determine that electrical discharges would

develop into the harmonies of unifying love. Some practical

reminders of what happens when they have misinterpreted the

attraction that begins in the physical and continues in the physical

until every cell is in agony of unrest dependent upon the impart

ing from the other's body that which would give poise or bal

ance to the physical forces. The suggestible souls under the

hallucination of love causes the mind such bewilderment that

finally the contract is entered into, in which they promise to fulfill

that union which was, as they think, intended from the beginning

of creation, and will last throughout all eternity, fully satisfied

that the proof is adequate in the pleasure they have felt in their

association.

So the ceremony is said, but, true to the laws of magnetism

and chemistry, in their more constant association, they become

of the same rate of vibration, and also, like the magnet, when

it has imparted all of its qualities, and made a magnet of another

iron, which it drew to it at first, then repellantly fell away from

it later, so do these two persons prove their union was based upon

the physical forces and first their bodies cease to attract, then

repel each other, and the minds likewise, and the suggestions now

begin, which are the reverse of those taken and exchanged in

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the early days of attraction. No longer the thrill in the embrace

or the kiss, then one or the other makes the first declaration that

love never existed. The opposite one accepts that suggestion,

his body responds to that, and they proceed to build their chem

istry and their magnetism accordingly. They emphasize the sug

gestion of their mental and spiritual unfitness for each other,

and, being perfectly ignorant of the basis of their first attrac

tion, they must wonder how it is changing into repulsion.

This being a type of the majority of marriages, and prob

ably the very great majority, I would hardly leave the matter

without remedy, but I first want to think for awhile about love.

Thus far I have only spoken of what has been called love, and

that misinterpretation of the sensations that grew out of the

physical forces has become the standard and is the sought for

in the teachings from about every source. Those who have

studied the previous chapters of this book, especially that con

cerning the effect of the emotions upon the chemistry of the

body, would recognize at once that the so-called love had its

origin in the exterior. That sort of emotion belongs in the same

grade with jealousy, anger, and hate, because all of those have

their beginning first in an appeal to the senses, and works in

upon the soul and involves it in intensifying the untoward emo

tion. That which begins in the senses and reaches the soul

reverses all the good, and therefore I would have no confidence

in what was said to be love, that began in intense physical excite

ment, even if you call that attraction. If beginning in the senses

and carrying the delusion of love to the soul is not the right

order, then what would be the natural force and origin of love?

In studying the attributes of the soul we find among its native

qualities love. Now, there could not be a great many loves any

more than there are two forces represented when light in a

building and power in the streets are manifested, but they are

two forms of expression of the same force, so love expresses

itself in many forms, including that that exists between the man

and his true complement. The recognition upon the part of two

such persons is not dependent upon sense perception in any way.

They would love and know they loved, even if all the objective

senses were in abeyance or lost. Like other psychic perceptions,

its description is practically impossible. When I speak of psy

chic colors, the term has no meaning unless one has experienced

psychic colors. It is therefore not probable that anyone can

convey to another the exact methods of discernment, as to what

love will seem like when they find it. However, since it is to

spring out of the soul, one needs not to be educated objectively

concerning it, or be looking for its signs. One thing is certain,

the symptoms of wild physical excitement and attraction are

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not the evidence that one should either look for or take as proving

they had found the right one. Since love has its origin in the

soul and union first takes place there involuntarily, and as soul

is controller and even creator of the body, certainly all the body

in its chemistry, as well as all other forces, passes under the influ

ence of the soul's love, and entire union is the normal result,

and that is the union which physical laws or spiritual could

never divorce. This love solves every problem, answers every

possible question as to how to be happy though married; how

to manage all the affairs of daily life, companionably, not com

petitively. I have named this last state as love. I will leave

you to name that under the other description, which is at best

only a travesty, but is so usual that I will indicate how to make

the best of it.

There are charlatans in almost every city that are getting rich

through advertising to separate the united and unite the sepa

rated. The demand for their services is said to be increasing.

Very often where the charlatan fails, the individual takes the

matter into his own hands to make an exchange. All of these

things, as well as the divorce courts, prove the basis of union

was under chemical, magnetic and other physical forces, but if

union has taken place, even under mistake, or even where the

parents would seem to have made a good sale of the daughter

in securing for her a rich husband, still she was a party to the

mistake, and there must be an adjustment of these situations.

Marriages that took place under the physical laws satisfied the

individuals at first; they remained satisfied until physical repul

sion under satisfied chemistry and magnetism took place, and

they began to suggest to each other that love was dying. Absol

utely every word of this book proves that the soul is absolute over

all that the individual is, and that is controllable by suggestion

through the will of the individual. Under this law, then, if all

such people knew that they could maintain the attraction between

them, instead of exchanging the suggestion of getting further

apart, they would by all the powers of their wills drive into their

souls the suggestion of co-operation and of union, and under

the creative law of the soul, each would actually, by changes

made, convert the other into his ideal. This, of course, would

require their mutual co-operation. Neither one or the other

could compel the full union to be attained. Any husband and

wife that know these laws will have no excuse for separation.

I have stated here without limitation that the soul of the indi

vidual is superior to all that individual is, and the reason I have

often referred to its creative power is to impress upon you that

regeneration of the body, and even of the character, can be accom

plished through its power and law. Whatever there might be

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in planetary condition, or however correct a specialist's assur

ance that a certain couple were of such temperaments that they

never could harmonize, I say in spite of all that, including heredity

or any other thing that could be thought capable of preventing

the harmonious and successful lives of the husband and wife, even

though they united first under mistaken ideas, still applying the

principles of the New Psychology, they can become happy through

perfect union.

The value of love a man gives to woman; "a gift treasured

more highly than life in the body, has been given into the keeping

of woman by man. She recognizing the sacredness of the gift,

placed it immediately into the sanctuary of her soul, where a

shrine had been prepared and held in readiness for it.

"What is so unearthly, so beautiful, as the first birth of a

woman's love? The air of heaven is not purer in its wander

ings, its sunshine not more holy in its warmth."

To love one soul for its beauty and grace and truth is to open

the way to appreciate all beautiful and true and gracious souls,

and to recognize spiritual beauty wherever it is seen.

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•^fc^ HOSE earnest persons who are seeking all that this book The Mother

f^ could mean to them will find the soul's laws as they apply an(j ffer

^*"^ in the guidance of children ; how suggestion is a factor in Child

the child's forming of habits, desirable or undesirable; how that

the repetition of a thought or act upon the part of the child results

in that particular thing taking place afterwards involuntarily un

der the law that habit is stamped in the department of character,

which acts spontaneously. If that habit be to neglect one depart

ment of education when it should have fondness for that particu

lar study, so as to master it and have a well rounded out education,

or has acquired the habit of making grimaces, or saying words

or imitating the manners that are unbecoming, then, as stated,

this book has in various ways outlined the formulas for giving

the suggestions to the child that eradicate all the undesirable

and create a fondness for that which it needs to like. It will be

remembered that the parent has best access to the child, because

she can have a heart to heart talk with the child at retiring time,

when the mother may change her song into words directed in

the passivity of the child, directly to the Tatter's soul, commanding

the literal changes desired, and establishing the standards that

when they come into fulfillment, the realization will have taken

place of the mother's highest ideal concerning that child in any

phase of its physical, or its spiritual or mental department. These

subjects having been so clearly presented, I need not repeat

further upon that department of the relationship of the mother

and child during its rearing. This chapter is to reveal the laws

and practices by which in days to come an entire race may become

even perfect physically, mentally and spiritually.

I have no occasion to discuss the evolution of the race, but I

do want to think awhile of how every man evolves from a single

cell, or from two cells, one the germ, the other the egg. In other

chapters I have shown that our physical laboratories of histology

have given us the understanding of how all of the tissues of the

body are made up of the little physical structures we call cells,

that in their aggregate comprise our chemical organization and

our psychological laboratory has revealed that every cell is pos

sessed of intelligence, the collative energy of which comprises

a mind possessed of its central system ; therefore we have in each

cell an intelligent being capable of communicating intelligently

with all of its fellows, or through the central mental organiza

tion receive communications. The foregoing would make it very

apparent how suggestions are conveyed in our therapeutic work

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to the cells of any tissue, and their chemistry modified through the

effect of mind acting upon the cells.

We may take the first pair of cells; let there be three such

pairs, and place them all in the same environment; one develops

into a star-fish and the other into a crustacean, and the third

one into a vertebrate, and yet under every sort of analysis they

show to be identical. Then we should know at once that what

ever was conveyed from the parents was in the spirit not the

matter of these cells. The heredity of habit, the conveyance of

nature and characteristics we must see could not be in the chem

istry, but in the mind of these new individuals. If the parents

of a pair of cells that develop into a man had lived under the

laws, impressing their own characters only with the natures and

habits that would have been strictly ideal in the child, then that

offspring could manifest nothing less than that. The student of

this book cannot return to a situation by which he could avail

himself of such fortunate knowledge upon the part of his parents,

and so we take the situation as we find it, as every practical man

must, and begin providing for a better condition for our succes

sors. The wife cannot possibly in a brief period of time eradicate

from the character of her husband that which might not be ideal

and has been placed there by his ancestry and cultivation, but

she has it absolutely in her power to see that none of those condi

tions either hers or her husbands, physically or spiritually, that

are not ideal, shall be present in her child. The unborn child

is in the same relationship to her organization that any of the

cells of any tissue of her body have ever been, and that is, to be

susceptible to intelligent communicating, that builds the chemical

elements into the body, determines the arrangement of those

cells into organs, stamps the impress of function upon those

organs, so that all that a child is in its aggregate of physical

cells, the mother through her sub-conscious department, builds,

and since the sub-conscious department is responsive to the ideals

that may be formed in the objective reasoning of her mind, so can

there be special impresses to prevent deformities or deficiencies

and build in perfection and beauty of physical form. Just as she

would impress her soul to build perfect harmony in that child's

body, so can she, and so should she, deliberately and with intent,

build the character of that child after the highest conceptions that

even a mother could formulate with reference to a grand and

glorious nature. Now, prayer addressed to some power outside

has not succeeded in giving either beauty of body or character,

simply because the law is that one should have absolute intellec

tual trust toward her own soul, as the power that builds the child

in all of its departments, and that soul of hers will look to her

mind, objective, as the architect.

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^»^OT only for accuracy, but to have a common ground of

_j / understanding, it is necessary to distinguish between attri-

butes of the objective mind and those of the soul, or sub

jective. Through the function of the senses data is gathered

from the objective world, and by the same conscious or intellec

tual or objective department we come to our conclusions upon any

subject and we think as we contemplate the matter that it is

correct, and therefore we believe. This is an operation of the

objective mind that forms the conclusion and registers its de

cision and its belief in the soul. The soul is suggestible and

accepts the decision and acts under the influence of the mind's

belief and that which was belief of the mind becomes faith in

the soul. This idea that is so registered in the soul, because the

soul is responsive in all of its different departments, including

the creative, that it will build a reality to conform to the idea

implanted.

Hope is comprised of two elements. Of course it is an attri

bute of the soul, and its largeness depends upon the degree of

expectancy that the soul may hold in any direction, providing

there is a degree of desire present. Just as water requires the

two elements, hydrogen and oxygen, and we would not say oxygen

when we meant water, nor hydrogen when we meant either oxy

gen or water. Just in the same way we would not say we hope

for something when we desired it, but did not expect it, or that we

hope for something that we expected, which was very undesirable.

As really scientific psychologists, there should be an evenness be

tween desire and expectation ; that is, we should not expect the

undesirable, nor desire without expecting the fulfillment.

We often meet with individuals who are all wrought up over

something that they expect will happen to them, which will be

very disastrous to their comfort or interests. It becomes an all-

consuming thought; it is the only thing they can speak of, and

the only varying they have from the expectancy of the main dis

aster is when they think of a whole lot of less important things

that they expect to happen that are not wanted. It seems that

every great fear has a large following of numerous lesser fears.

Ultimately their whole life may become dominated by the fear

and expectancy of tragedy or disaster or disappointment. If this

fear pertains to something that individuals might do, then it is

evident to my reader that under the law of telepathy, the very

thought itself may have made the introduction into the soul and

mind of the individual's fear, placed there by one who is fearful.

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Ideas that never would have occurred to them to have done, but

the forceful soul activity of the one who is expectant of evil

compels them to think and to act under the impulse of the vic

tim. In the above we have a demonstration of the direct fulfill

ment of the law by which we bring to us that which we fear. If

we get a suggestion through a wrong diagnosis or in any way

that a disease exists in the body, our fear puts the soul to work

to make the chemical, or functional changes to fulfill that ex

pectancy. We fear we will not succeed in our undertakings,

and so confuse the soul that it prevents our proper reasoning,

causes us mis-steps, or takes the vitality out of our bodies and

we fail. All of this shows great faith in some power to defeat

our happiness and they used to personify that power by the

name,—"Devil." Scientifically we know it is the power of the

individual soul acting under the laws of telepathy, creation, or

confusion. We would not say we hoped for any of these things.

We see an individual in a state of illness, despair, defeat in

which he would give all the world to remedy and so desire is

intense, but he does not expect realization or he may have in

tense desires to obtain a result or possession of something—it

matters not at all what this is all of his desiring capacity is at its

utmost, but he does not expect the fulfillment of his desires and

again we cannot use the word hope in the place of desire, nor can

we use the word hope except to represent desire and expectation

both and yet hope is the most vital element—it must be possessed

to ever regain health either moral or physical—to make pro

gress in any department of culture, to fulfill any of our ideas.

Before one can possibly have fear to the extent indicated in

the above he must believe there are powers that are able to

bring such misfortune—to have such intense desires with no ex

pectation to have them realized one must be without faith either

in the power or its beneficence that could or would bring the an

swer. Then to have hope (desire and expectation) one must be

lieve there is a power that is able and willing to bring him that

which he desires for he could then hope for the blessing he

craves. In hundreds of ways we have proven the soul is that

power—that the individual in his subjective department is pos

sessed of all power so far as the person and his affairs are con

cerned; that the soul acts under the impulse and through the

impulse of faith, providing the individual faithfully desires and

expects (hopes) but it does require one more act upon the part

of the individual's will or intellect and that is to trust. We now

have Faith, Hope and Trust in their true scientific relationship

—we must believe in our souls as having the power ; we must

both desire and expect but finally we must surrender all trustingly

to the Power, the soul, and the hope will be realized. This is law

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and therefore the ideal as indicated in the suggestion, not that

one flashes across his mind, but that one lives will become rea

lized. This is the faith and hope and trust that all men have

talked about but none have ever had perfect when they thought

the power that could be reached through their minds was outside

of themselves. This accurate knowledge of laws under which

the power operates will enable one to fulfill the vital part of

trust as has never been before demonstrated.

Here is an exact formula by which to obtain results. It is

the same whether it pertain to some material thing or spiritual.

Suppose I desire that my lecture upon Faith and Hope and

Trust shall be true in all of its principles and stand the test of

every light that can be thrown upon it through any man's experi

ence and I desire that to come from my soul, that is by inspiration

for I assume my soul knows. To me to desire anything is to

expect it also. I have a period of moments or minutes or several

times during a day or maybe more, during which I give intense

thought to the aspiration to bring out of my soul its holdings

upon this matter. Finally I have thought intensely enough and

then I sit down and relax and become passive under the sugges

tion that I am now entrusting the whole matter to the soul to

bring fulfillment and will leave it in its care. If I have hope and

I have faith I will altogether trust and here is where we usually

fail, is in perfect trust. I would show a lack of perfect trust if

after I had said I would leave it to my soul I would be anxious

in my mind and worry lest I would fail to get response to my

command to my soul and this worry would defeat the results

because it would confuse the soul that demands perfect trust.

Leaving it all to the sub-conscious and it uses its inherent knowl

edge, its telepathy, its perfect memory, its foreknowledge and so

when I speak it uses my body to tell its truths. Under faith and

hope and trust you have the cure for diseases for the perfection

of the physical, for the building of character—only remember it

is building, not delivering into form in an instant out of nothing

but that it operates under law but that the soul is altogether equal

to all the conceptions of the individual and as the conception

enlarges it demonstrates more and more power. The best and it

is all we need to do is to believe in the soul as the power (be

lieve with our minds, hope for what we want, expect nothing

we would not desire, trust to that power to answer to our aspira

tions, execute absolutely everything that we are prompted to do

and we have every facility and will have every blessing in fulfill

ment.

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